1/03Estimated number of women killed as witches in Tanzania each year: 500

HelpAge International (London)

10/88Number of women appointed Official Salem Witch by Governor Michael Dukakis: 1

Laurie Cabot (Salem, Mass.)

10/89Amount paid at auction last year for the hat worn by the Wicked Witch of the West in The Wizard of Oz: $33,000

Sotheby’s (N.Y. C.)

12/01Years after Ernest Hemingway killed himself that his transsexual son died last fall in a Miami women’s jail: 40

Miami-Dade County Corrections and Rehabilitations Department (Miami, Fla.)/ Harper’s research

10/03Chances that a person executed as a witch in Iceland between 1625 and 1685 was a man: 9 in 10

Male Witches in Early Modern Europe, by Laura Apps and Andrew Gow (Manchester University Press, 2002)