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    Witches, Wenches & Wild Women of Rhode Island
    Witches, Wenches & Wild Women of Rhode Island
    Witches, Wenches & Wild Women of Rhode Island
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    Witches, Wenches & Wild Women of Rhode Island

    By M. E. Reilly-McGreen

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    Discover the most fearsome and fascinating women to ever live in the Ocean State in this collection of wild historical profiles.
     
    In Witches, Wenches & Wild Women of Rhode Island, local historian M.E. Reilly-McGreen reveals true tales of women who caused scandals in their day. It’s a compendium of rebellious deeds, outlandish gossip, and superstition run amok.
     
    Mercy Brown was a nineteen-year-old consumption victim thought to be a vampire. Locals were so afraid of Mercy that her body was exhumed to perform a ritual banishment of the undead. Goody Seager was accused of infesting her neighbor’s cheese with maggots by using witchcraft. According to legend, Tall “Dutch” Kattern was an opium-eating fortuneteller whose curse set a ship aflame after its crew cast her ashore.
     
    Along with these tales, you’ll read of revolutionaries, like Julia Ward Howe, who invented Mother’s Day; and religious reformers like Anne Hutchinson, said to be the inspiration for Hawthorne's heroine in The Scarlet Letter; and many others.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherOpen Road Integrated Media
    Release dateMay 28, 2013
    ISBN9781614230632
    Witches, Wenches & Wild Women of Rhode Island
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    M. E. Reilly-McGreen

    M.E. Reilly-McGreen is the author of two previous History Press books: Witches, Wenches and Wild Women of Rhode Island and Revolutionaries, Rebels and Rogues of Rhode Island. She lives in the Ocean State with her husband and three sons.

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