Newcastle Witch Trials
Newcastle Witch Trials

Author: Helen Steadman

Publisher: Bell Jar Books

Published: 2024-04-01

Total Pages: 750

ISBN-13: 1915421152

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A fictional account of the women who were persecuted as witches and the witchfinders who condemned them in seventeenth-century England. Based on true events in the north east of England, the Newcastle Witch Trials trilogy tells the story of three women's struggle for survival in a hostile and superstitious world. Inspired by the little-known Newcastle witch trials, where fifteen women and one man were hanged for witchcraft on a single day in August 1650. Book 1: Widdershins Jane Chandler is an apprentice healer. From childhood, she and her mother have used herbs to cure the sick. But Jane will soon learn that her sheltered life in a small village is not safe from the troubles of the wider world. From his father's beatings to his uncle's raging sermons, John Sharpe is beset by bad fortune. Fighting through personal tragedy, he finds his purpose: to become a witchfinder and save innocents from the scourge of witchcraft. Book 2: Sunwise Jane’s lover, Tom returns from the navy to find her unhappily married to his betrayer and Jane is caught in an impossible situation. Still reeling from the loss of her mother at the hands of the Scottish witchfinder, Jane has no choice but to continue her dangerous work as a healer while keeping her young daughter safe. But as Tom seeks a way for him and Jane to be together, the witchfinder is still at large. Filled with vengeance, John Sharpe will stop at nothing in his quest to rid Scotland and England of the scourge of witchcraft. Book 3: Solstice When a new vicar arrives to take over the parish of Mutton Clog, the village finds itself in the grip of puritan fever, and suspicious eyes are turned on Rose Driver. Rose’s mother, brother and grandmother were all put to death by the Scottish witchfinder, John Sharpe. Almost quarter of a century after the Newcastle witch trials, Sharpe is no longer a threat so Rose should be safe in her quiet village. But is history about to repeat itself? Find out in Solstice, the powerful conclusion to the Newcastle Witch Trials trilogy. The Newcastle Witch Trials trilogy contains one copy each of Widdershins (2017), Sunwise (2019) and Solstice (2023).

Widdershins
Widdershins

Author: Helen Steadman

Publisher: Widdershins Series

Published: 2022-05

Total Pages: 300

ISBN-13: 9781739776244

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Instruments of Darkness
Instruments of Darkness

Author: James Sharpe

Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press

Published: 1997-08-29

Total Pages: 388

ISBN-13: 9780812216332

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The first comprehensive scholarly history of witchcraft in England in over eighty years.

Braised Pork
Braised Pork

Author: An Yu

Publisher: Grove Press

Published: 2020-04-14

Total Pages: 159

ISBN-13: 0802148735

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A Chinese woman embarks on a dream-like journey through Beijing, Tibet, and mysterious worlds beyond in this novel of “startlingly original imagination” (Guardian, UK). One autumn morning, Jia Jia walks into the bathroom of her lavish Beijing apartment to find her husband dead in their half-full bathtub. Like something out of a dream, Jia Jia discovers a pencil sketch of a strange watery figure next to the tub. The mysterious drawing launches Jia Jia on an odyssey across contemporary Beijing, from its high-rise apartments to its hidden bars, as her path crosses some of the people who call the city home, including a jaded bartender who may be able to offer her the kind of love she had long thought impossible. Unencumbered by a marriage that had constrained her, Jia Jia travels into her past in search of unspoken secrets. Her journey takes her to the high plains of Tibet, and even to a shadowy, watery otherworld. An atmospheric evocation of middle-class urban China, An Yu’s Braised Pork explores the intimate strangeness of grief, the indelible mysteries of unseen worlds, and a young woman’s empowering journey of self-discovery.

Englands Grievance Discovered in Relation to the Coal Trade
Englands Grievance Discovered in Relation to the Coal Trade

Author: Ralph Gardiner

Publisher:

Published: 2017-05-09

Total Pages: 272

ISBN-13: 9783337064020

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Englands Grievance Discovered in Relation to the Coal Trade - With the Map of the River of Tine, and Situation of the Town and Corporation of Newcastle is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1796. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, and other genres. As a publisher we focus on the preservation of historical literature. Many works of historical writers and scientists are available today as antiques only. Hansebooks newly publishes these books and contributes to the preservation of literature which has become rare and historical knowledge for the future.

Daemonologie
Daemonologie

Author: King James

Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform

Published: 2018-05-26

Total Pages: 42

ISBN-13: 9781720360247

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Daemonologie-in full Daemonologie, In Forme of a Dialogue, Divided into three Books: By the High and Mighty Prince, James &c.-was written and published in 1597 by King James VI of Scotland (later also James I of England) as a philosophical dissertation on contemporary necromancy and the historical relationships between the various methods of divination used from ancient black magic. This included a study on demonology and the methods demons used to bother troubled men while touching on topics such as werewolves and vampires. It was a political yet theological statement to educate a misinformed populace on the history, practices and implications of sorcery and the reasons for persecuting a witch in a Christian society under the rule of canonical law. This book is believed to be one of the main sources used by William Shakespeare in the production of Macbeth. Shakespeare attributed many quotes and rituals found within the book directly to the Weird Sisters, yet also attributed the Scottish themes and settings referenced from the trials in which King James was involved.

The Witches
The Witches

Author: Stacy Schiff

Publisher: Little, Brown

Published: 2015-10-27

Total Pages: 718

ISBN-13: 0316200611

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The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Cleopatra, the #1 national bestseller, unpacks the mystery of the Salem Witch Trials. It began in 1692, over an exceptionally raw Massachusetts winter, when a minister's daughter began to scream and convulse. It ended less than a year later, but not before 19 men and women had been hanged and an elderly man crushed to death. The panic spread quickly, involving the most educated men and prominent politicians in the colony. Neighbors accused neighbors, parents and children each other. Aside from suffrage, the Salem Witch Trials represent the only moment when women played the central role in American history. In curious ways, the trials would shape the future republic. As psychologically thrilling as it is historically seminal, The Witches is Stacy Schiff's account of this fantastical story -- the first great American mystery unveiled fully for the first time by one of our most acclaimed historians.

The Discovery of Witches
The Discovery of Witches

Author: Matthew Hopkins

Publisher: DigiCat

Published: 2022-09-15

Total Pages: 34

ISBN-13:

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DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "The Discovery of Witches" by Matthew Hopkins. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.