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Description edit
Alone among the young girls taught by nuns at a convent school in nineteenth-century France, orphaned Herculine has neither wealth nor social connections. When she's accused of being a witch, the shy student is locked up with no hope of escape ... until her rescue by a real witch, the... read more
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Characters edit
- Herculine: An orphan at a convent school
- Sebastiana: A real witch
- Asmodei: Add a description of this character.
- Romeo
- Peronette
- Mother Marie-des-anges
- Teotocchi
- Maluenda
- Sabine
- Luchina
- Michel
- Monsieur Adam
- Inez
- Sister Claire
- Mother Superior
- Grethe
- Mariette
- Hermance
- Isadore
- Monsieur Capeau
- Narcise
- Sister Brigid
- Sologne
- Father Francois
- Etienne
- Cleofide
- Les Baux
- Nicol
- Canon
- Marithe
- Augustine
- Madame
- Ravndal
- Elizaveta
- Arlesienne
- Louis
- Sister Marie
- Chaillot
- Capet
First Sentence edit
IN 1812, I went to "the Stone," the holy house at C-, a village straddling the ill-drawn borders of Brittany and Normandy, dependent upon the grace of the Church.
Glossary edit
- Wrap-Rascal: an old term for a coarse overcoat.<retrieved from http://books.google.com/books?id=zF1YAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA4551&lpg=PA4551&dq=clothing+dictionary;+wrap-rascal&source=bl&ots=3Ksvnx3TN_&sig=KtxpaIzwwN3c19Wxh3IwMjfUWjw&hl=en&ei=BzvLTp6JDcbe0QHLhs0d&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=2&ved=0CDIQ6AEwAQ#v=onepage&q&f=false>
- Orange-Butter: a perfumed ointment or hair dressing; a pomadeMerriam Webster
- Maleficia: Any malicious acts which were contributed to witches and sorcerers in past times that were believed to cause harm or death to humans, animals or crops.<retrieved from: http://en.mimi.hu/esoteric/maleficia.html>
- Machicoulis: n. same as machicolation, opening in a projecting parapet or in the floor of a gallery or roof through which missiles could be dropped on attackers <retrieved from: http://www.dictionarist.com/machicoulis>
Series & Lists edit
This is book 1 of 3 in Herculine Trilogy. (standard series)
Followed by The Book of Spirits.
Authors & Contributors edit
- James Reese (Author)
First Edition edit
Original Language: English
Publisher: William Morrow
Country: United States
Publication Date: 2002
ISBN: 0066210151
Page Count: 468
Publisher: William Morrow
Country: United States
Publication Date: 2002
ISBN: 0066210151
Page Count: 468
Classification edit
- Library of Congress: PS3618.E44 B6 2002
- Dewey: 813.6
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