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Chapter
FIFTEEN
Conjurers in the American colonies and back in
England and the rest of Europe had for centuries been
persecuted as witches. Hangings and burnings had
occurred in just about every country Ethan could name.
Women had been executed as witches in
Massachusetts within the last century, and to this day
ministers throughout the colonies railed against the
dangers of witchcraft, claiming that those who conjured
were in league with Satan.
It probably didn’t help that in order to conjure, a
speller had to bridge the gap between the living world
and the domain of the dead, the ethereal realm of spirit
and soul. That was why a speller needed a guide in the
form of a ghost; it was why Ethan needed Uncle Reg.