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Witch Wood

By: John Buchan
Narrated by: Antony Ferguson
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Considered a masterpiece by critics, John Buchan’s Witch Wood combines the author’s interests in landscape, Calvinism, and the fate of Scotland after the Wars of the Three Kingdoms.

In seventeenth-century Scotland, religious struggles run rampant. Here, Young David Sempill, a moderate Presbyterian minister, pleas with his sect to have compassion for the remnants of King Montrose’s defeated army, who are being harried and slaughtered by religious extremists. But as pre-Christian nature worship and its accompanying black magicks seep forth from Melanudrigill Wood, Sempill himself disappears.

Originally published in 1927.

Public Domain (P)2023 Blackstone Publishing
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The story is largely set in the 1600’s and covers the sectarianism that set back Scotland perhaps forever as a separate country. The story winds history and storytelling well . Needs some attention to the language which uses many Scottish words no longer in use but worth persevering.

Another great John Buchan story but this time with Scottish History

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