Other editions of book Lois the Witch

Even while confusion and terror is rife in Salem, America, Lois is forced to leave her home in England and travel to that area. The maddening witch-hunts and the consequent tragic events are well elucidated; the melancholic and piercing truths of the Salem-tragedy are rendered in a heart-wrenching manner. An engrossing work, it also sheds light on the hardships faced by the early settlers.

Fear of Satan becomes murder in the name of God. Newly orphaned, the God-fearing and heart-broken Lois is sent across the Atlantic to live with her uncle's family in Salem, but on her arrival she finds herself the object of cruel hostility, potent jealousy and mad desire. When the local Pastor's daughters are contorted and convulsed by apparently satanic powers, the whole town is whipped into a hysterical witch hunt. And when Lois's cousins start to resent her presence in their household, life becomes precarious and an old woman's curse returns to haunt her.