(Full synopsis in comments) I loved how the story jumped backwards and forwards between Liv and her family arriving on the island, to them leaving (wait to see how) and back to the present day, with the story bringing you closer and closer to. No mercy was bestowed for Agnes’ confession, however – she was swiftly garrotted and burnt at the stake. The lighthouse and island is surrounded by tales of witch burnings, missing children and danger. After spending days thus, she confessed to raising the storm in partnership with the Devil, though I always thought that if I’d had to suffer days on end in a cell wearing such a monstrous instrument I’d have confessed to being Satan himself. In Agnes’ case, the bridle was chained to the wall of her cell, and therefore she was forced to endure countless days unable to speak, eat, or sleep, enduring the humiliation of opening her bowels or bladder without being able to attend to herself, and doubtless in a terrible amount of pain without a moment’s relief. Four sharp blades penetrated the mouth of the witch to keep her quiet, and doubtless to ruin her tongue for a long time thereafter. Book Review: The Lighthouse Witches by C. She’d been kept in a scold’s bridle, a fearful instrument wrought of iron that enclosed the head. This was one of the numerous books that are sitting on my goodreads to. Agnes Sampson, an elderly woman and a healer from Haddington, was the ringleader. “The punishments meted out to the witches of North Berwick were recounted from generation to generation.
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