Highland Vow
“To hear such viciousness spat out against a child of only a few months of age made the bile sting the back of his throat. Anne Seaton had been the bairn’s mother and she had obviously not made much effort to win the love and admiration of the people in the village. Beautiful and vain, she had definitely bedded one too many husbands. There may have been a fool or two who believed her a witch, who truly thought a dark babe born to such a fair mother was proof of evil. What most of the people had ...clearly decided was that it was a good way to be rid of someone they did not like, at least at first.
By the time they had lashed the woman to the pyre, Cormac suspected a large number of the villagers had begun to believe the talk of witchcraft. In their frenzy of fear and hate they had tried to rid the village of the child as well. They certainly were not going to claim elsewise now, not after killing the woman. Burning a witch was righteous justice. Murdering a woman who had been unlikable, killing her in such a brutal way, just because she could not keep her legs or her mouth closed or you wanted her gone, was not.MoreLess
By the time they had lashed the woman to the pyre, Cormac suspected a large number of the villagers had begun to believe the talk of witchcraft. In their frenzy of fear and hate they had tried to rid the village of the child as well. They certainly were not going to claim elsewise now, not after killing the woman. Burning a witch was righteous justice. Murdering a woman who had been unlikable, killing her in such a brutal way, just because she could not keep her legs or her mouth closed or you wanted her gone, was not.MoreLess
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