The Last Witchfinder: A Novel

The Last Witchfinder: A Novel

James Morrow

Language: English

Pages: 560

ISBN: 0060821809

Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub


Jennet Stearne's father hangs witches for a living in Restoration England. But when she witnesses the unjust and horrifying execution of her beloved aunt Isobel, the precocious child decides to make it her life's mission to bring down the Parliamentary Witchcraft Act. Armed with little save the power of reason, and determined to see justice prevail, Jennet hurls herself into a series of picaresque adventures—traveling from King William's Britain to the fledgling American Colonies to an uncharted island in the Caribbean, braving West Indies pirates, Algonquin Indian captors, the machinations of the Salem Witch Court, and the sensuous love of a young Ben Franklin. For Jennet cannot and must not rest until she has put the last witchfinder out of business.

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Would-be gaolers for the effort they expend in leaving him alone.” At the Fleet Street intersection they came upon a half-dozen whores, drinking gin and trading jests preparatory to a long night of splinting doodles in Covent Garden and Lincoln’s Inn Fields. Slocum jerked a pistol from his belt. The trollops dispersed like a flock of guinea hens apprehending a fox within its midst. “’Twas recently my pleasure to read the English translation of your Principia Mathematica,” Ben said, drawing.

Surface of the sea and vanished. “He was ne’er a particularly loving uncle,” Abby said, “but as a witchfinder he’ll prove difficult of replacement.” “May God rest his soul,” Dunstan said. “Ere I became a woman,” she noted, “’twas his wont to beat me nightly with a willow wand.” The Ignis Fatuus put to port the following morning. Although Dunstan had vaguely hoped that a welcoming committee organized by the Calvinist clergy might greet them, no one amongst the scurrying multitudes on Clark’s.

Sheriff and his men carted the convicted enchantress to the summit. After leaning a ladder against the largest oak, the sheriff hauled Bridget Bishop ten rungs skyward, slipped a noose around her throat, and pushed her into the air. The witch’s cervical vertebrae failed to separate, and in consequence her strangulation lasted nine minutes. On the first morning in July, the Court heard the collective evidence against Sarah Wildes, Susannah Martin, Elizabeth Howe, and Sarah Good. Walter and the.

Written by the cat’s owner). Beyond this seasonal jollity, “Haunted Happenings” customers can avail themselves of the year-round attractions: the Salem Witch Museum, the Witch Dungeon Museum, Boris Karloff’s Witch Museum, the Salem Wax Museum of Witches and Seafarers, the Haunted Witch Village, Mayhem Manor, Terror on the Wharf, and, for the Nathaniel Hawthorne scholar in the family, the House of the Seven Gables. It’s obvious that in the recent past our Salemites confronted a difficult choice:.

For the poetic passion until it unequivocally entered her life. Whilst not normally given to bluster, Okommaka never tired of relating how, shortly after the Haverhill raid, he’d bested seven other braves, Pussough amongst them, in a quartet of games—wrestling match, canoe race, archery contest, spear toss—and thereby acquired the right to woo and wed the sky-eyed, fire-haired English maid. Jennet wasn’t sure how she felt about this prologue to her matrimony. There was much in the narrative to.

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