The Witch of Portobello

by Paulo Coelho

destroy them. No one, that is, but Athena. A long time after Athena’s death, her former teacher asked me to go with her to the town of Prestonpans

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There’s no point now in going into all the excesses committed by the Inquisition, with its torture chambers and its bonfires lit by hatred and vengeance; however, on our way to Prestonpans, Edda said several times that there was something about that gesture which she found unacceptable: the town and the 14th Baron of Prestoungrange & Dolphinstoun were ‘granting pardons’ to people who had been brutally executed.