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Testament of a Witch

Douglas Watt author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Luath Press Ltd

Published:15th Mar '21

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I confess that I am a witch. I have sold myself body and soul unto Satan. My mother took me to the Blinkbonny Woods where we met other witches. I put a hand on the crown of my head and the other on the sole of my foot. I gave everything between unto him.

Scotland, late seventeeth century. A young woman is accused of witchcraft. Tortured with pins and sleep deprivation, she is using all of her the Scottish witch-hunt began.

Probably more than a thousand men and women were exectued for witchcraft before the frenzy died down. When Edinburgh-based Advocate John MacKenzie and his assistant Davie Scougall investigate the suspicious death of a woman denounced as a witch, they find themselves in a village overwhelmed by superstition, resentment and puritanical religion. In a time of spiritual, political and social upheaval, will reason allow MacKenzie to reveal the true evil lurking in the town, before the witch-hunt claims yet another victim?

Move over Rebus. There’s a new – or should that be old – detective in town. - MATTHEW PERREN, I-ON EDINBURGH, on Death of a Chief

ISBN: 9781913025281

Dimensions: 198mm x 127mm x 17mm

Weight: 250g

256 pages

3rd New edition