WITCHCRAFT, A GRAPHIC HISTORY: STORIES OF WISE WOMEN, HEALERS, AND MAGIC BY LINDSAY SQUIRE AND LISA SALSI

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‘Every witch uses her magic differently. I use mine to heal people, while others …’
‘What do the others do!? Are there many different types of witches!?’
‘Oh yes! Many …’

Join Lindsay, a young and curious 19th-century lady, asshe meets Biddy Early, the famous ‘wise woman of County Clare’, and learns all about the magickal artsfrom which plants can be used to make healing poultices and potions, to how people dealt with the social and political stigma of practicing witchcraft.

Biddy Early, who lived from 17981874 in Ireland, was by no means the first-ever witch, but she wasthe first to appear on the historical record. Before her, fears and superstitions surrounding practitioners of ‘the nameless art’ were too strong. It is said that Biddy took an apprenticeship with the ‘good folk’,sidheor faeries, when she was very young, and it was from them thatshe learned her skill as a healer.

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