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In the same book I found a description of the activities of one Matthew Hopkins, Witch Finder, at work in the English Civil War period. At about this time, I also read a book about shamanism, and it suddenly occurred to me that the beliefs and skills which would have condemned a woman to death in one society would have been revered in another ...
The novel is set in Mars Bluff, South Carolina 1865, during the Reconstruction era, immediately after the end of the American Civil War. 12-year-old Patsy is a now-former slave living on the Davis plantation, who records the changes she is experiencing in a diary, given to her by Annie and Charles, her former enslaver's niece and nephew.
Inside the tomb they find something far greater than gold or gems, they find a diary of a person who lived more than four thousand years ago. The team pool all their knowledge together in order to translate the scroll diary before it disintegrates in the foreign air. The diary of Seola is about a girl's struggle to resist a wicked world.
The Spellsong Cycle is a fantasy series written by L. E. Modesitt Jr. Set in the fictional world of Erde, it is notable for its system of magic, based on music and song.. The main character of the first three books of the series is Anna Marshall, a middle-aged music instructor and small-time opera singer who is magically transported from Ames, Iowa to Erde, a fantastical world where songs have ...
The Fifth Sorceress was accused of misogyny or sexism, and was critically panned. [1] [2] [3] William Thompson called it "a fairly typical fledgling effort by a new author, at times well told but marred by poor decisions." However some critics gave it praise, Kirkus reviews called it "An intelligent debut, possibly headed for bestsellerdom."
According to Michelet, in a note added to the end of the book: The object of my book was purely to give, not a history of Sorcery, but a simple and impressive formula of the Sorceress's way of life, which my learned predecessors darken by the very elaboration of their scientific methods and the excess of detail.
The seized drug would have been worth up to NZ$3.8 million, about $2.2 million USD, said the New Zealand Customs Service in a news release Woman Attempting to Smuggle 22 Pounds of Meth Wrapped as ...
[2] Matteo Maria Boiardo: Mistaya: Magic Kingdom of Landover: She is the daughter of Ben Holiday, the High Lord of Landover, and his queen, Willow. She is born near the end of the fourth book, The Tangle Box, and is one of the main characters of the fifth, Witches' Brew. She becomes a protagonist in the sixth volume, A Princess of Landover ...