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In Daughters of the Witching Hill, Mary Sharratt brings record to life in a brilliant and wrenching book of strong women, family and betrayal motivated by the 1612 Pendle witch tests.Bess Southerns, an impoverished widow, lives with her children in a crumbling old tower in Pendle Forest. Sketching on Catholic ritual, therapeutic herbs, and guidance from her spirit-friend Tibb, Bess heals the tired and foretells the near future in trade for drink and food. As she age range, she instructs her best friend, Anne, and her granddaughter, Alizon, in her art. Anne ultimately converts to dark magic, while Alizon battles to accept the ability she's inherited and dreams of a simpler life. But when a peddler suffers a stroke after exchanging harsh words with Alizon, an area magistrate stunts her into accusing her family and neighbours of witchcraft. Suspicion and paranoia reach frenzied heights as friends and family members turn on each other and the book draws to a inevitable conclusion.
