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Richard Warren Brewster
Harvard Book Store and The American Book Center welcome celebrated New York City mediator RICHARD WARREN BREWSTER for a discussion of his book Witchcraft Legacy: Stories from the Big Attic. He will be joined in conversation by digital publisher GRETCHEN GRANT, CEO of DailyFX.
Witchcraft Legacy begins with a fearful discovery by the author and his brother when, as children, they were exploring the big attic in their childhood home. They found a steamer trunk filled with old family books and papers, and unearthed an ancient book once owned by the chief judge of the 1692 Salem witchcraft trials, William Stoughton. In crabbed, handwritten flyleaf notes, Stoughton describes someone being mercilessly haunted and perhaps tortured by “Evil Spirits.” To the boys, the evil spirits seemed to cast a family curse, long buried in the trunk.
Witchcraft Legacy collects family stories of love, death, and life’s surprising turns as the generations who possessed Stoughton’s book live out the curse of the evil spirits. Starting in the 1660s, the stories span nearly four centuries as the ancient tome, with its eerie flyleaf notes, passes from hand to hand, and is eventually found by the author and his brother.
