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.)

10/99Minimum number of U.S. Army bases in which space has been reserved for Wiccan soldiers’ seasonal rites: 8

Sacred Well Congregations (San Antonio, Tex.)

1/02Number of years after being executed as witches that six Massachusetts women were exonerated last fall: 309

Office of the Governor of Massachusetts (Boston)

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

HelpAge International (London)

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)