text: A short story character spends the night with some of these people and later dies with "no hopeful verse upon his tombstone".
full_question: A short story character spends the night with some of these people and later dies with "no hopeful verse upon his tombstone". In a novel about this kind of people, three of them conspire to give Jenny cancer in revenge for her marriage to Darryl Va Horne, who has affairs with Alexandra, Jane and Sukie, residents of a small Rhode Island town. Reverend Hale exclaims "I denounce these proceedings!" in a (*) court case about this kind of people. John Updike wrote a novel about several of these people in Eastwick, Nathaniel Hawthorne's "Young Goodman Brown" is about one of their meetings. Martha Corey and John Proctor are executes on suspicion of being these people at the end of Arthur Miller's The Crucible. For 10 points, name these people who hang out in covens. 
first_sentence: A short story character spends the night with some of these people and later dies with "no hopeful verse upon his tombstone".
raw_answer: witches