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Corrag

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It might cause us to miss the most beautiful soul we could ever encounter, it might cheat us of the good things God has on offer. More than once Corrag checks herself – "But I race ahead" – and one finds oneself impatiently wishing that she would. While she waits, Charles Leslie, an Irish Jacobite, comes to her cell, eager for proof that might implicate the king in the massacre and assist in James's restoration to the English throne. Three times they attempted to carry Corrag to Eilean Munde, and three times they were driven back by the storm; as a witch, Corrag was not allowed to be buried on sacred ground.

In Corrag, Susan Fletcher tells us the story of an epic historic event, of the difference a single heart can make – and how deep and lasting relationships that can come from the most unlikely places. I wanted her spared and, surprising myself, didn't care if it turned out to be by deux et machina if that's what it took. There is an excellent afterword which explains what is known about the central characters - Corrag, members of the MacDonald Clan and Charles Leslie, an Irish Jacobite. It’s a love story in many forms: between nature and humans, between husbands and wives, mothers and daughters, mothers and sons, and an unspoken but real love between two very different people.Her only audience was a reverend of Christian faith, whose motive was initially to obtain an eyewitness account for political purposes. I learned about the Massacre of Glencoe - on a frosty winter’s morning in 1692 King William III and his redcoats slaughtered men, women and children of the Scottish MacDonald Clan. The central character, Corrag the witch, figures in the local folklore of Glencoe, and the other narrator Charles Leslie, who hears her story in her prison cell in Inverary and whose letters to his wife break up the story, is a real historical figure and is believed to be the author of the anonymous document which first recorded the massacre. This is my introduction to the poetic and beautiful prose from Susan Fletcher and now I want more and more of it.

The Massacre of Glencoe happened at 5am on 13th February 1692 when thirty-eight members of the Macdonald clan were killed by soldiers who had enjoyed the clan’s hospitality for the previous ten days.I think of them as one for each of these women) opens, it is sixteen-year-old Corrag in jail for witchcraft, the only prisoner: tiny wrists in tight chains, filthy and covered with lice. What follows is a story that is amazing, mesmerizing, filled with many burdens and hardships, yet also filled with incredible light and beauty.

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