SYD MOORE
Witch Hunt
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This novel is entirely a work of fiction. The names, characters and incidents portrayed in it are the work of the author’s imagination. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events or localities is entirely coincidental.
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Copyright © Syd Moore 2012
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For those who were prevented from telling their story. And for Granddad York.
‘Besides, when any Errour is committed
Whereby wee may Incurre or losse or shame,
That wee ourselves thereof may be acquitted
Wee are too ready to transferre the blame
Upon some Witch: That made us does the same.
It is the vulgar Plea that weake ones use
I was bewitch’d: I could nor will: nor chuse.
But my affection was not caus’d by Art:
The witch that wrought on mee was in my brest.’
Sir Francis Hubert Quoted in Witchcraft in Tudor and Stuart England by Alan MacFarlane
‘The tools of conquest do not necessarily come with bombs and explosions and fallout. There are weapons that are simply thoughts, ideas, prejudices, to be found only in the minds of men. For the record, prejudices can kill and suspicion can destroy. A thoughtless, frightened search for a scapegoat has a fallout all its own for the children yet unborn.’
Rod Serling, creator of The Twilight Zone and civil rights activist
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