title: Looking Through The Horns: The Reflections Of A Male Witch
author: Steven Hammond
description: Steven Hammond was a student at Emmaus Bible College where he attended in preparation of becoming a minister, and has studied Christianity all his life. He has been involved in the Labor Movement for 25 years and has been a practicing witch for the last 20 years.
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  # Snow, Glass, Apples
  
  
  
  
  
  Copyright (c) 1994 Neil Gaiman
  
    
  
  
  
  
  
  I do not know what manner of thing she is. None of us do. She killed her
  mother in the birthing, but that's never enough to account for it.
  
  
  
  
  
  They call me wise, but I am far from wise, for all that I foresaw fragments of
  it, frozen moments caught in pools of water or in the cold glass of my mirror.
  If I were wise I would not have tried to change what I saw. If I were wise I
  would have killed myself before ever I encountered her, before ever I caught
  him. Wise, and a witch, or so they said, and I'd seen his face in my dreams
  and in reflections for all my life: sixteen years of dreaming of him before he
  reined his horse by the bridge that morning, and asked my name. He helped me
  onto his high horse and we rode together to my little cottage, my face buried
  in the gold of his hair. He asked for the best of what I had; a king's right,
  it was.
  
  
  
  
  
  His beard was red-bronze in the morning light, and I knew him, not as