Introduction Magdalena, the clever and headstrong daughter of Bavarian hangman Jakob Kuisl, lives with her father outside the village walls and is destined to be married off to another hangman’s son—except that the town physician’s son is hopelessly in love with her. And her father’s wisdom and empathy are as unusual as his despised profession. [...]
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Daughters of the Witching Hill by Mary Sharratt
Introduction This vivid and wrenching novel is based on a real-life witch hunt, during which seven women and two men from Pendle Forest were hanged for witchcraft. The most notorious of the accused, Elizabeth Southerns, or Mother Demdike, cheated the hangman by dying in prison. This is how Thomas Potts describes her in his book [...]
