The Witching Tide is a captivating tale in its own right, but also reminds us of the dangerous roads humanity is all too eager to go down.
Although most people are familiar with the Salem witch trials, many may not know that witch hunts in America hadon their European counterparts. It’s true that 20 people were executed in late 17th-century Massachusetts for witchcraft in an event that would define our idea of what the phrase “witch hunt” means.
The story follows Martha Hallybread, a healer and midwife in the town of Cleftwater, where she has lived all her life. Unable to speak thanks to an unspecified physical malady she refers to only as the “worm” she carries inside her, Martha uses a rudimentary sign language to speak and deploys her knowledge of herbs and natural remedies to nurse her fellow villagers through illness and birth multiple generations of babies.
Hoping to shield Martha from the witchfinder’s interest, Kit volunteers her to serve as part of the group of women tasked with searching the accused for bodily signs of witchcraft. Though she tries her best to help the women who come into her care, Martha is largely powerless in the face of the paranoia and anger that seem to be sweeping her village. And her own position becomes increasingly precarious as more and more people with connections to her find themselves accused.
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