This book is about public witchcraft accusations in the central Indian state of Chhattisgarh. What holds this book together is the accusation of Shanti Bai Verma, an ordinary rural woman, who was accused of causing her nephew's illness and then making him disappear into thin air. Relatives, including her sons, and villagers turned on her and tortured her. Sensing her life was at stake she confessed her crimes and sought to disperse the outcome by naming another woman as an accomplice. I have chosen to write this book in short stories--110 fragments--of approximately 1,000 words using the metaphor of a shattered urn. Each fragment both unravels and pieces together Shanti Bai's story of the metaphoric urn. The book dips in and out of fragments that add context and flesh to the fullness of Shanti Bai's story and the stories of other accused women, those that accuse them, those that rescue them, those that report their stories, those that legislate and prosecute on their behalf and that of the ethnographer who researches them. Part one sets the scene by introducing the reader to Shanti Bai, the rationale for writing her story in fragments, Chhattisgarhi witches and their meanings in popular usage, language and the research process.