Dancing in the Palm of his hand
- Publisher
- Breakwater Books Ltd.
- Initial publish date
- Aug 2005
- Category
- General
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eBook
- ISBN
- 9781550812817
- Publish Date
- Aug 2005
- List Price
- $17.99
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Description
DANCING IN THE PALM OF HIS HAND is a novel about the horrors of the European witch persecutions as revealed through Eva Rosen, a young widow accused of witchcraft, her persecutor Wilhelm Hampelmann, and her defender Franz Lutz. A cautionary tale about the dangers of religious zealotry, the novel recreates the world of early 17th century Germany when sexual repression and religious war were encouraged, rigid patriarchy prevailed in church, state, and family - and no one questioned the existence of witches or their master, the Devil.
About the author
Formerly an ecologist and science writer and then a newsletter editor on an Ojibwe Indian reserve, Annamarie Beckel now lives in Kelligrews, Newfoundland. Silence of Stone is her third novel. Her first novel, All Gone Widdun , won the 1999 Book Achievement Award, first place fiction, from the Midwest Independent Publishers Association.