Days 27 & 28 were a doozy! In this episode, we step into the eerie courtroom of Charles Dickens’ chilling ghost story — ‘The Trial for Murder.’ First published in 1865, this haunting tale blurs the line between justice and the supernatural. Was it guilt, vengeance... or something otherworldly that swayed the verdict? Stay tuned — the trial is about to begin.”

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DAY 26! The Witch's Daughter, by John Greenleaf Whittier, explores themes of social prejudice, religious intolerance, and the resilience of the human spirit. I like this story's moral, to think of others with compassion and refrain from judgment, and I hope you can understand it through the old English poetry.

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Mini - Lexicon:
- A haymow is either a quantity of hay stored in a barn or the part of a barn where hay is stored, typically an upper-level loft. It can also refer to straw or other materials stored for animal bedding.

wan - pale and giving the impression of illness or exhaustion.

brook - to tolerate or endure (I brook no harm shall come to mine = I will not tolerate)

Norman William - Norman William” refers to William the Conqueror, the Norman king who invaded England in 1066. This line means before the Norman Conquest changed English culture and language.

Oxus- the name of a god who was the divine representation of the river.

Cimbri-
The Cimbri were an ancient tribe who originated in northern modern Denmark.

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Day 25 of our Countdown to Hallows Eve contains three poems involving witches. One from the perspective of a woman who helps a witch, one of the witches themselves, and one of a woman who perhaps wished ill upon a witch.

THE WITCH, by Mary Elizabeth Coleridge

Excerpt from THE SCOTTISH PLAY, by WIlliam Shakespeare

A SALEM MOTHER, Theodosia Garrison (Hamilton, anyone?)

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