Belief is Half of All Healing

In the book A Monster Calls, by Patrick Ness, there’s a moment when the tree monster is telling the main character, a boy called Conor, a story about the tree’s past.

The tree is using these stories to teach Conor about life, and how to deal with different situations.

In this particular story, the tree talks of a parson and how the tree punished this parson for something he’d let happen.

I won’t spoil the story or the book by describing the punishment (and the lead -up to it) as A Monster Cal...