[4] She recounts that "I remember being struck by the isolation of the first settlers who founded New England and thinking about how they must have felt, surrounded by vast forests, on the edge of an unexplored continent, an ocean away from home.

In the same book I found a description of the activities of one Matthew Hopkins, Witch Finder, at work in the English Civil War period.

At about this time, I also read a book about shamanism, and it suddenly occurred to me that the beliefs and skills which would have condemned a woman to death in one society would have been revered in another.

[6] Beginning: Fourteen-year-old Mary's grandmother was suspected to be a witch, she was 'walked' until she could no longer hobble, pricked and then tested if she could float.

Mary was plucked from the crowd and taken down a steep alley to a carriage, where a lady sat inside waiting for her.

Journey 3: wilderness: They travel inland through great forests as the track narrows and becomes almost impassable as two Pennacooks guide them as they reach Beulah.

She created the sequel called Sorceress, although it continues Mary's story, it is experienced through Agnes, her present day descendant.