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The Weyward Sisters, hand in hand, Posters of the sea and land, Thus do go, about, about, Thrice to thine, thrice to mine, And thrice again to make up nine.
I know I will like a book if it starts with lines from Macbeth!
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Weyward is used in the First Folio edition of Macbeth. In later versions, Weyward was replaced by Weird.
“Oh, you mean Weyward Cottage? Violet Ayres’s place?”
The physician spoke with confidence. He was a man, after all. He had no reason to think he would not be believed.
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“They say that the first woman was born of man, Altha,” she said to me once when I was a child, for this was what we had heard the rector say in church that Sunday. “That she came from his rib. But you must remember, my girl, that this is a lie.”
“Now you know the truth. Man is born of woman. Not the other way round.”
As for the reason: it is my belief that people lie when they are afraid.”
Absolutely! And most men are afraid of most women!
A great many things look different from a distance. Truth is like ugliness: you need to be close to see it.
An Altha Weyward, aged twenty-one, indicted for witchcraft and tried at Lancaster Castle.”
only 21
“As we know, our womenfolk in particular are at great risk from the devil’s temptation, being weak in both mind and spirit. We must protect them from this evil influence,
This infuriates me!
“Of the charge of murder by witchcraft,” he said, “we find the accused … not guilty.”
shocked! I would bet it didn't happen like this much
The front door was dented, the lock broken. Inside, shards of glass sparkled on the floor like fallen stars, and I had to be careful where I stepped. The smell of herbs and fruit hung rotten in the air and I realized they had broken my precious jars of salves and tinctures.
Why do people have to be so cruel?
I took down the parchment, quill, and inkhorn from the hiding place in the attic, thankful that it had not been discovered.
wonder if it's still there
Perhaps one day, she said, there would be a safer time. When women could walk the earth, shining bright with power, and yet live.
i thought it was now, but not for all women
But, as Graham said when he handed her the brooch in its pretty green box, perhaps being different wasn’t such a bad thing after all. Perhaps it was something to be proud of.
I love that her brother was always there for her.
The connections between and among women are the most feared, the most problematic, and the most potentially transforming force on the planet. —Adrienne Rich
If only ALL WOMEN would realize it.
had taken place in nearby Lancaster in 1612, resulting in the hanging of nine people (mainly women). I was struck by the contrast between the open, sweeping hills and these haunting stories of persecution and confinement.
was appalled by the media reports of rising rates of domestic violence in lockdown. There seemed to be a thread of misogyny connecting the witch hunts of the seventeenth century to the epidemic of domestic violence that continues today.
Truth!
something to explore this, but also to showcase female resilience through the ages.
