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Witch Child is a historical novel by English author Celia Rees and published in 2000 by Bloomsbury Publishing. It was shortlisted for the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize (2001), [1] won two French prizes, the Prix Sorcières (2003). [2] and the Prix Roman Millepages (2002) and in Italy it was runner up for the Cento Literary Prize. [3]
Celia Rees (born 17 June 1949) is an English author. Celia Rees was born in Solihull , West Midlands and attended Tudor Grange Grammar School for Girls . She studied History and Politics at Warwick University and has a PGCE and a master's degree in Education from Birmingham University .
Witch Child (2000) by Celia Rees, is a fictional story about a young woman in Puritan New England who was a healer and pagan. ISBN 978-0-7636-4228-0 I Walk in Dread: The Diary of Deliverance Trembly, Witness to the Salem Witch Trials, Massachusetts Bay Colony 1691 ( Dear America Series ) (2004), by Lisa Rowe Fraustino (1961-living), is young ...
Celia decides to pass the child off as her own, sending Harry back to England and later writing to him with the "good news". Beatrice gives birth to a girl, whom Celia names Julia. Beatrice is disgusted it is not a boy, for he would inherit Wideacre, and withdraws responsibility of the child. Despite a newly assertive Celia taking her place as ...
Norway was also home to child witch accusations in the seventeenth century, following the rest of Europe in the witch craze. [10] A specific narrative includes a group of children in the Northern district of Finnmark that were accused of witchcraft. [10] This group was made up of six girls, accused in the mid-seventeenth century. [10]
The Witch Child of Pilot's Knob is a Kentucky urban legend that tells of a five-year-old girl named Mary Evelyn Ford and her mother, Mary Louise Ford, being burned at the stake in the 1900s for practicing witchcraft in the town of Marion, Kentucky.
Witch Week is a children's fantasy novel and school story by the British writer Diana Wynne Jones, published by Macmillan Children's Books in 1982. It was the third published of seven Chrestomanci books .
The Kiss of the Enchantress (Isobel Lilian Gloag, c. 1890), inspired by Keats's "Lamia", depicts Lamia as half-serpent, half-woman. Lamia (/ ˈ l eɪ m i ə /; Ancient Greek: Λάμια, romanized: Lámia), in ancient Greek mythology, was a child-eating monster and, in later tradition, was regarded as a type of night-haunting spirit or "daimon".