A Widowed Academic Investigates Historical Practices - Blog Tour and Book Excerpt for "The Witch of Godstow Abbey"
- DK Marley
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BOOK EXCERPT
From Chapter 2 - A Garden’s Secret
The abbess sat in her chambers, reviewing the abbey’s ledgers. Sister Agnes entered without waiting for the novice outside to announce her.
“My child! What urgency drives you to burst in so?”
“I must tell you what I’ve found, Mother. It is deeply troubling.”
“Then speak, Sister.”
“The piglets did not die by the blade alone. They were prepared first with a potion—I suspect monkshood, judging by the blue tint of their lips and tongues. Before death took them, the executioner drew their vital essence through a small puncture wound near one of the great vessels. Finally, he cut their throats — not as a killing blow, but to bleed them wholly, leaving not a drop of life-humour behind.”
“A sacrifice to the Devil, then?”
“Yes, Mother. I believe that this is the work of those who serve the Enemy.”
