![]() The most powerful and Machiavellian figure of the Jacobean court had a vested interest in events at Belvoir.He would mastermind a conspiracy that has remained hidden for centuries. But as Tracy Borman reveals here, it is not quite typical. The Kings Witch (2018) The Devils Slave (2019) The Fallen Angel. Like those other cases, it is a tale of superstition, the darkest limits of the human imagination and, ultimately, injustice - a reminder of how paranoia and hysteria can create an environment in which nonconformism spells death. Tracy Joanne Borman (born 1 January 1972) is a historian and author from Scothern. ![]() This case is among those which constitute the European witch craze of the 15th-18th centuries, when suspected witches were burned, hanged, or tortured by the thousand. Read Witches A Tale of Sorcery, Scandal and Seduction by Tracy Borman available from Rakuten Kobo. King James has apparently lost his appetite for hunting witches, so the medical skills and herbal knowledge that saw Frances accused of witchcraft no longer seem to hang over her like a death sentence. Frances Gorges seems destined to be happy at last. And so the Earl of Rutland's sons will not be the last to die. This is the concluding volume in the King's Witch trilogy. The second son, the last male of the line, will not survive. Soon the whole family will be stricken with the same terrifying symptoms. ![]() Within a few short weeks he will suffer an excruciating death. ![]() In Belvoir Castle, the heir of one of England's great noble families falls suddenly and dangerously ill. ![]()
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