Witches, Wenches & Wild Women of Rhode Island

by M.E. Reilly-McGreen

Book Overview

Experience the history of Rhode Island and learn about the Ocean State's most fascinating and wild women.

Read of Mercy Brown, a nineteen-year-old consumption victim who was thought to be a vampire and whose body was exhumed and discovered with blood in the heart. There was Goody Seager, accused of infesting her neighbor's cheese with maggots by using witchcraft, and Tall Dutch Kattern of Block Island, an opium-eating fortune teller...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1596299371
• ISBN13: 9781596299375
• Release Date: May 2010
• Publisher: History Press
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.9" x 8.8"