Short Story Of Alcina's Cabin

“At the time that the accident had taken place the village was busy gathering the lumber needed to build a new church. Alcina’s husband, who’d been working a cross-cut saw with another man was gravely injured when the saw buckled in a tree, causing the blade to kick back and run along the inner part of his leg, severing an artery. He had bled to death out in the forest in mere minutes; there was nothing any of the other men could do for him. “After the accident Alcina became, withdrawn, keeping to herself in her home most of the day. “At first, most of the other villagers took pity on her and would look in on her a few times each day. But after a while, these two women, Nancy Fergusson and Ester Laycock grew tired of their husbands …show more content…
For the others had left for home mere moments before the villagers had found their way to Alcina’s cabin. “At this point the village vicar, Joseph Baker, accuses Alcina of witchcraft and for having poisoned Abellona and Emma’s minds—who he then also accuses of partaking in the craft. All three were then subsequently arrested. “Alcina, who was given no trial, no defense, was quickly condemned to death by the vicar, her execution would be carried out by burning. He, had convinced the villagers it was the only way he, a man of God, could save her soul, and free the village from her dark magic. Purification by fire, he had called it. “Abellona and Emma were later questioned and then locked away in a shed that’d been used to store the village’s excess food supplies, but had recently, for the past few years at least, remained empty.” “Wait…” I then said, stopping Terra because I was becoming somewhat confused. “I thought Abellona was the only girl the villagers had arrested, and that they had put her in the stocks where Emma had then visited her during the