Just as she does every year, Lisbeth travels to spend Christmas with her grandmother Olga, since her parents are too busy to celebrate with her. Lisbeth likes spending the holidays with her granny. Unlike most people, Olga doesn't mind that the little girl is always finishing people's sentences for them. Then there's her little friend Edward, the next door neighbour who especially appreciates Lisbeth's gift, because his stutter makes it hard for him to finish sentence on his own. One day, the two friends go play in the attic, where Lisbeth discovers a mysterious old book. Her grandmother is furious when she finds out and takes the book away from her, which of course only makes our girl all the more curious to read it, and when she does, she's at first amazed to see it describes a lineage of unusual women going back to Lilith in 5,000 BC, who were all persecuted as witches. Amazement turns to astonishment when she finds pages describing her own grandmother, and then to shock when she turns to read the last pages. ( )