THE BLUE FIREDRAKE, Or The Wonderful And Strange Relation Of The Life And Adventures Of Nathan Souldrop: Showing How He Was Forspoken By That Terrible Sorceress Elinor Shaw, The Which For Her Various And Abominable Crimes Was Brought To Tryal At Northampton In The Year 1705; Together With Particulars Of Her Amazing Pranks And Remarkable Actions Both Before And After Her Apprehension, The Like Never Before Heard Of: Written By Himselfe And Now Set Forth by Thomas Wright, Principal of Cowper School, Olney .
A tale of black magic and witchcraft in early eighteenth-century Northamptonshire, loosely based on the story of Elinor Shaw, the last person burnt in England for the practice of witchcraft. The narrator is the victim of mesmerism and hallucinatory horrors, one of which is a gigantic blue dragon that materializes in the air.
Language
English
Pages
296
Format
Hardcover
Release
January 01, 1892
The Blue Firedrake: or, the Wonderful and Strange Relation of the Life and Adventures of Nathan Souldrop
THE BLUE FIREDRAKE, Or The Wonderful And Strange Relation Of The Life And Adventures Of Nathan Souldrop: Showing How He Was Forspoken By That Terrible Sorceress Elinor Shaw, The Which For Her Various And Abominable Crimes Was Brought To Tryal At Northampton In The Year 1705; Together With Particulars Of Her Amazing Pranks And Remarkable Actions Both Before And After Her Apprehension, The Like Never Before Heard Of: Written By Himselfe And Now Set Forth by Thomas Wright, Principal of Cowper School, Olney .
A tale of black magic and witchcraft in early eighteenth-century Northamptonshire, loosely based on the story of Elinor Shaw, the last person burnt in England for the practice of witchcraft. The narrator is the victim of mesmerism and hallucinatory horrors, one of which is a gigantic blue dragon that materializes in the air.