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My Enemy's Tears: The Witch of Northampton
- Narrated by: Louise Barrett
- Length: 14 hrs and 49 mins
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My Enemy's Tears: The Witch of Northampton
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Publisher's Summary
She was real. She was rich and beautiful. She was tried as a witch in 1675—and survived.
Based on the lives of Mary Bliss Parsons and Sarah Lyman Bridgeman, My Enemy's Tears: The Witch of Northampton takes us back to life in the Puritan settlements along the Connecticut River, a terrifying wilderness full of warring natives, natural wonders and disasters—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 other eager to marry and bear sons. They spend their married lives in the villages of Springfield and Northampton, where a youthful disagreement festers into a reason to hate and then to fear. As the years pass, one accuses the other 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