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In 1604, 20-year-old Anne Gunter was bewitched: she foamed at the mouth, contorted wildly in her bedchamber, went into trances. Her garters and bodices were perpetually unlacing themselves. Her signature symptom was to vomit pins and ""she voided some pins downwards as well by her water or otherwise.."" Popular history at its best, ""The Bewitching of Anne Gunter"" opens a fascinating window onto the past. It's a tale of controlling fathers, willful daughters, nosy neighbors, power relations between peasants and gentry, and village life in early-modern Europe. Above all it's an original and… (más)
It all began when Anne fell ill in the summer of 1604. Her father suspected “hysteria” of course, but this evolves into violent fits, vomiting pins, and bodily contortions. All the tell-tale signs of English witchcraft. Predictably, her father alerts anyone and everyone to come see for themselves. When asked who hurt her so, Anne accuses Elizabeth Gregory, the town scold, and Agnes and Mary Pepwell, local mother and daughter vagrants.
Pretty textbook right? Well, turns out, Anne was a victim of horrific abuse at home. There was bad blood between the Gunters and the Gregorys, thanks to Anne’s father. The Pepwells were just easy targets. Anne’s sickness was simply an opportunity. Drugged, Anne sees and hears what she is told by her father. Cunning men and doctors are called to assist, lending support to the accusation of witchcraft when no remedy is found. Finally, her case reaches the academics at Oxford. Confident in his connections, her father hopes to gather enough evidence to hang the witches. But these are no small town folk, and things do not go as planned. Overestimating his case, Anne is brought before King James I himself, who won't be fooled...
I really liked this book, as I knew I would. Sharpe was actually inspired to write “The Bewitching of Anne Gunter” while researching for "Instruments of Darkness" which I also enjoyed. This case is so unique in many ways and extraordinary in its proceedings. ( )
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He is deponent saith that he...did not at any time give or cause to be given unto his said daughter Anne either during her fits or before or after any sack or sallet oil...but this deponent's wife or some of her servants...did in two or three mornings in the time of the sickness of his deponent's said daughter when she was out of her fits give unto her some sack and sallet oil mixed with spices and sugar candy to comfort her stomach. And this he saith was done by the direction of a cunning woman swelling at Pangbourne as this deponent was also informed. - Deposition of Brian Gunter to the Star Chamber, 11 February 1606
She saith that in the time of her sickness & troubles she had sack and sallet oil with some other mixtures in the same given unto her by her said father & by Nicholas Kirfoote & his sister, 7 that when she took this drink she was presently provoked to vomit 7 to tumble 7 toss up and down 7 that the same drink so troubled her senses that she knew not what she said, besides that it made her very sick. And of this she saith her father made her to drink when & so often as he thought good. - Deposition of Anne Gunter to the Star Chamber, 24 February 1606
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For Guy, In the hope that he is getting a better deal from his father than Anne had from hers
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Anne was first interrogated on Sunday, 24 February 1606, at the Holborn Court of Gray's Inn.
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These plaques, together with documentation from the eighteenth century, demonstrate a final irony: long after their troublesome neighbor Brian Gunter had gone to his grave at Oxford, and long after his daughter Anne came to whatever end fate had decreed for her, the solid and well-established farming families, the Gregorys among them, maintained their hold on North Moreton.
In 1604, 20-year-old Anne Gunter was bewitched: she foamed at the mouth, contorted wildly in her bedchamber, went into trances. Her garters and bodices were perpetually unlacing themselves. Her signature symptom was to vomit pins and ""she voided some pins downwards as well by her water or otherwise.."" Popular history at its best, ""The Bewitching of Anne Gunter"" opens a fascinating window onto the past. It's a tale of controlling fathers, willful daughters, nosy neighbors, power relations between peasants and gentry, and village life in early-modern Europe. Above all it's an original and
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Pretty textbook right? Well, turns out, Anne was a victim of horrific abuse at home. There was bad blood between the Gunters and the Gregorys, thanks to Anne’s father. The Pepwells were just easy targets. Anne’s sickness was simply an opportunity. Drugged, Anne sees and hears what she is told by her father. Cunning men and doctors are called to assist, lending support to the accusation of witchcraft when no remedy is found. Finally, her case reaches the academics at Oxford. Confident in his connections, her father hopes to gather enough evidence to hang the witches. But these are no small town folk, and things do not go as planned. Overestimating his case, Anne is brought before King James I himself, who won't be fooled...
I really liked this book, as I knew I would. Sharpe was actually inspired to write “The Bewitching of Anne Gunter” while researching for "Instruments of Darkness" which I also enjoyed. This case is so unique in many ways and extraordinary in its proceedings. (