Daughters of the Witching Hill, (Paperback)

from justabookreader

Bess Southers lives in Pendle Forest with her small family. A cunning woman she's called by some, by others a witch. A fine line in 16th Century England. She wanders the forest helping to heal animals and people alike, careful not to run afoul of the authorities or tout her powers. Bess's best fr...

from jasmyn9

Bess Southerns is a charmer, a wise woman, a healer - trained in the forbidden folk magic of the Catholic church. By helping her neighbors she risks bringing the law down on not only herself, but her family and friends. We watch as she has a family, some that stand by her and some that leave beca...

from kraaivrouw

This had a slow start for me and I actually thought about giving it up, but I'm so glad I didn't because once I got far enough into it the book opened itself up to me like a flower and revealed its stark beauty, sadness, and pain. I didn't know anything about this particular set of witch hunts, b...

from etoiline

I suppose you could call this a creative retelling of a historical event. The author took a primary document, which sounds very detailed for the time (during the rule of James I of England) and imagined the lives of the characters within. The imagery is very good, and the characters fully fleshed...

from bgruagach

In the late 1500s and early 1600s in the English county of Lancashire in Pendle Forest a cunning woman known by the nickname Old Demdike served the local populace. Demdike, whose real name was Elizabeth Southerne, lived in the ruins of Malkin Tower with her daughter Liza and her grandchildren Jam...