My Enemy’s Tears: The Witch of Norhampton

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She was once real. She was once wealthy and beautiful. She was once tried as a witch in 1675–and survived.

Based at the lives of Mary Bliss Parsons and Sarah Lyman Bridgeman, My Enemy’s Tears: The Witch of Northampton, takes us back to life within the Puritan settlements along the Connectict River, a terrifying wilderness filled with warring natives, natural wonders and failures–portents of God’s anger or a witch’s meddling curse.

Mary and Sarah grow up amid Puritan superstition and piety, busy with their household chores, one imagining a life different from her mother’s and the opposite eager to marry and bear sons. They spend their married lives within the villages of Springfield and Northampton, where a youthful war of words festers into a reason why to hate after which to fear. As the years pass, one accuses the opposite of murder by witchcraft, prompting a trial before the Court of Assistants in Boston–17 years before the infamous Salem Witch Trials.

This fictional account of a true story describes two lives in conflict–one cursed and one blessed–and the transcendent power of forgiveness.
She was once real. She was once wealthy and beautiful. She was once tried as a witch in 1675–and survived.

Based at the lives of Mary Bliss Parsons and Sarah Lyman Bridgeman, My Enemy’s Tears: The Witch of Northampton, takes us back to life within the Puritan settlements along the Connectict River, a terrifying wilderness filled with warring natives, natural wonders and failures–portents of God’s anger or a witch’s meddling curse.

Mary and Sarah grow up amid Puritan superstition and piety, busy with their household chores, one imagining a life different from her mother’s and the opposite eager to marry and bear sons. They spend their married lives within the villages of Springfield and Northampton, where a youthful war of words festers into a reason why to hate after which to fear. As the years pass, one accuses the opposite of murder by witchcraft, prompting a trial before the Court of Assistants in Boston–17 years before the infamous Salem Witch Trials.

This fictional account of a true story describes two lives in conflict–one cursed and one blessed–and the transcendent power of forgiveness.

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