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Title Sycorax / J.B. Aspinall.
Author Aspinall, J. B. (John Brian)
Publication Info. London : Peter Owen, 2006.
Chester Springs, PA : Distributed in the USA by Dufour Editions Inc.
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Description 1 online resource (239 pages) : maps.
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Summary A tale of witchcraft and retribution in 14th-century Yorkshire is told through the eyes of a penitent monk. In the credulous squalor of medieval Yorkshire, a peasant girl is accused of being a sorceress. The suffering inflicted upon her by male superstition sparks a spectacular and terrifying retort which initiates the legend of Sycorax. Many years later, the story is recounted by Edmund, a flawed monk at Byland Abbey, who sets out to write a history of the witch as a penance for lascivious fantasies. In the process, he uncovers a brutal and eerie tale in which he becomes fatally involved. Not just a trip into another epoch, and more than just another supernatural thriller, this cunning mock-translation of the medieval tale of Sycorax reveals that the compulsions and delusions examined are endemic in us all today.
Subject Byland Abbey (North Yorkshire, England) -- Fiction.
Witches -- England -- North Yorkshire -- Fiction.
Monks -- England -- North Yorkshire -- Fiction.
Superstition -- Fiction.
Byland Abbey (North Yorkshire, England) (OCoLC)fst00733142
Monks. (OCoLC)fst01025507
Superstition. (OCoLC)fst01139022
Witches. (OCoLC)fst01176346
England -- North Yorkshire. (OCoLC)fst01213952
FICTION / Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, Legends & Mythology
FICTION / General
Genre Fiction. (OCoLC)fst01423787
Electronic books.
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Related To Print version: Aspinall, J. B. (John Brian). Sycorax 9780720612783 (DLC) 2007274191 (OCoLC)69484533
ISBN 9780720617894 electronic bk.
0720617898 electronic bk.
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