Witches, Wenches & Wild Women of Rhode Island

Witches, Wenches & Wild Women of Rhode Island
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Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Total Pages : 141
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ISBN-10 : 9781614230632
ISBN-13 : 1614230633
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Book Synopsis Witches, Wenches & Wild Women of Rhode Island by : M. E. Reilly-McGreen

Download or read book Witches, Wenches & Wild Women of Rhode Island written by M. E. Reilly-McGreen and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2013-05-28 with total page 141 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discover the most fearsome and fascinating women to ever live in the Ocean State in this collection of wild historical profiles. In Witches, Wenches & Wild Women of Rhode Island, local historian M.E. Reilly-McGreen reveals true tales of women who caused scandals in their day. It’s a compendium of rebellious deeds, outlandish gossip, and superstition run amok. Mercy Brown was a nineteen-year-old consumption victim thought to be a vampire. Locals were so afraid of Mercy that her body was exhumed to perform a ritual banishment of the undead. Goody Seager was accused of infesting her neighbor’s cheese with maggots by using witchcraft. According to legend, Tall “Dutch” Kattern was an opium-eating fortuneteller whose curse set a ship aflame after its crew cast her ashore. Along with these tales, you’ll read of revolutionaries, like Julia Ward Howe, who invented Mother’s Day; and religious reformers like Anne Hutchinson, said to be the inspiration for Hawthorne's heroine in The Scarlet Letter; and many others.


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