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The Once & Future Witch Hunt

By: Alice Markham-Cantor, Rebecca Traister - foreword, Silvia Federici - afterword
Narrated by: Rebecca Gallagher
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As the descendant of Martha Carrier, an accused woman executed at Salem, Alice Markham-Cantor presents a riveting story that spans centuries and brings the historical significance of the witch trials into modern times.

Extensively researched and told through alternating fiction and nonfiction chapters, this book illuminates a shocking truth: contrary to popular opinion, the witch hunts never ended. Alice shares research that suggests tens of thousands of witch hunt-related deaths have happened all over the world in the last thirty years. The Once & Future Witch Hunt also features tantalizing glimpses into Alice's ancestors' lives and reimagines the trials through fact-based fiction.

At the intersection of witchcraft, feminism, anthropology, and history, this book gives us as authentic a retelling as may ever be possible while trying to answer that single, irrepressible question: how could this have happened?

©2024 Alice Markham-Cantor (P)2024 Tantor
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A comprehensive look at the Salem Witch Trials

coming into this book I didn't have a lot of knowledge about the Salem Witch Trials. I wanted to read something that would give me a good deep look into it and this book was perfect for that! The book is written in a unique format. One chapter is a historical fiction look at Martha Carrier's life (she is the however many great grandmother of the author who was killed in the trials). The next chapter is the author's unpacking of the previous chapter and insight into her research process. I was completely blown away and bewildered by how these witch trials came to be, the history of witch trials throughout the world and the fact that these are still going on today. The author needs to be credited for the amount of research she did, her heart and passion for the subject, and how she brought it all together in a beautiful story and a comprehensive analysis. I hope we can all learn from these trials how to be better humans. The world needs it.

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