“In the middle of the afternoon, Ratta paused at the turnoff to Coventry, which led to her log cabin in the foothills. Perhaps she should just take Mamie home and lay her to rest her in the old family plot at the edge of the hayfield. She knew she could bury Mamie properly, because she had taken a ceremonial scarf from Esmeralde’s cottage. Hidden among the glass vials of herbs and tinctures that Esmeralde had abandoned just inside the front door, Ratta had found the alpaca scarf, sparkly with stars. Ratta had seen such magical raiment before, scarves or shawlettes knit with stars or sometimes with leaf motifs. But she had only encountered them at sick houses, or in the possession of remedy women like Esmeralde.”
--Chapter 17, The Broken Circle: Yarns of the Knitting Witches