My inner voices suggest I go into our local Waterstone’s. I diverge. There on the table in front of me, the new Jeanette Winterson is on display. The back cover promises This is Lancashire. This is Pendle. This is witch country. Can a man be maimed by witchcraft? Can a severed head speak? ‘Based on the most notorious of English witch-trials, this is a tale of magic, superstition, conscience and ruthless murder.’
Enough! Leave the keyboard and take up the daylight gate.
francis cameron, oxford, 06 september 2012
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