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Dancing in the Palm of his hand

by (author) Annamarie Beckel

Publisher
Breakwater Books Ltd.
Initial publish date
Aug 2005
Category
General
  • 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.

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