Maria soon shows a talent for magic and Hannah proudly trains her, even though doing so puts them both in danger of being accused of witchcraft. A foundling discovered abandoned in an English turnip field, she was taken in by Hannah Owens. Maria, it’s worth noting, wasn’t a biological Owens. Unfortunately, the moral here feels too simplistic, and while I enjoyed watching Maria develop into a woman, her foolhardiness made her difficult to root for.
The curse that blew back upon the entire Owens line, following Jet, Frances, Sally and Gillian into their adulthoods and affecting the lives of their children as the men in their lives are doomed, one by one, to die. Magic Lessons takes us all the way to the beginning of the story and tells us what really happened to Maria Owens, the Salem witch referenced in both books, who invoked a curse upon the man who betrayed her and made her a part of the infamous witch trials. Alice Hoffman dips deeper into the bloodline of the love-cursed Owens women, those witches around whom Practical Magic (mainly about modern sisters Sally and Gillian) and The Rules of Magic (about aunts Jet and Frances’ childhoods in the 1960s) revolve.
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