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First Line Friday is a weekly feature and simple to do - grab the book nearest you and post the first line. Carrie hosts this over on her blog Reading is my Superpower.
Wander down a small alley off London's Fleet Street and you'll find a pub with a crooked, creaky charm.
Happy Reading!
Sarah
Looks like an interesting read!
ReplyDelete"In seventeenth-century England people inhabited a magical universe, a cosmos full of spiritual and occult forces with the power to shape earthly events. Not everyone adhered to exactly the same beliefs, nor was there consensus about meaning. And yet a time-traveller would be astonished by the vigorous currents of supernatural thought common to men and women at every social level, from the hub of the metropolis to the darkest corners of the land."
Witchfinders - A Seventieth-Century English Tragedy by Malcolm Gaskill
I just read Gaskill's The Ruin of All Witches and really liked it but our library doesn't have this one. Boo.
DeleteI have 3 by him now. I'm enjoying 'Witchfinders'. It's a companion read to a novel I've just finished.
DeleteI'm going to request my library purchase them, fingers crossed!
DeleteOh, I was thinking today (reading about witchcraft and all that...) after MAGA has moved on from abortion, IVF, contraception, gay-marriage etc... I guess they'll eventually 'progress' to actual witch hunts.... I really wouldn't put it past them @ this point.
DeleteAt this point, anything is possible. That used to be such a positive statement. Now, not so much. I hate it here.
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