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Date Posted: Wed, March 09 2022, 4:33:03
Author: kgp
Subject: QOTD for Wednesday, March 9, 2022

The following quotation is from Written In my Own Heart’s Blood by Diana Gabaldon. Copyright 2014 All Rights Reserved. Chapter 39 The Ghost of a Hangit Man


“There were stories. Always are, about a woman like that.” MacLaren cleared his own throat. “But she was good wi’ the grass cures - and wi’ charms, as well. Or so folk said.”

But then the man had gone, MacLaren said. No one knew where; they just didn’t see him anymore, and the woman went on as before, but now more of her visitors were men. And the women stopped taking their bairns up there, though they’d go sometimes themselves, quietly, in secret.

And then on the day before Samhain, as the sun was sinking and the great fires being builtup for the evening, a woman from nearby had gone up to the lonely croft and run down again, screaming.

“She’s found the door o’ the croft standing wide, the woman and her things all gone - and a man hanging from the rooftree, stone dead wi’ a rope around his neck.”

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[> Geillis had no compunction about doing whatever she thought necessary to further her own goals. A real sociopath. -- DianaH, Wed, March 09 2022, 8:05:22


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