North Village caught my attention because of the curse of the witch. In doing my research I found that North Village was doomed long before the witches ever came.
My book, Nissitissit Witch, suggests that the original curse on the valley was from the Indians who were slaughtered when the invading white settlers took the Nissitissit. We, as victors, wrote the history, but what about the history of those who came before us, what about the troubled Indian spirits?
While telling tales of Indian Spirits and witches I use this platform for my true message, which is pollution. We took America from the natives and the first thing we did was to decimate the woods, pollute the rivers and torture the land for anything we could take for profit. We dammed the rivers and killed the salmon.
During the 1800s, the Nissitissit was no different than any other river. During that time, our rivers were the recipient of every waste product and poison produced. North village is located in a narrow valley that concentrates the flow from about forty thousand aces of land upstream.
There were many little villages along the Nissitissit and any toxins they wanted to dispose of were dumped into the river.
Right in North Village, I found that they made felt and had a velvet shop.
The process of making felt uses mercurous oxide. Velvet clothes use felt in the collars, and the dyes in the velvets were also very toxic. Long-term exposure to mercury causes death by fits of insanity and people died in 'an unusual way'.
Nissitissit Witch takes all of these factors and spins a fictional entertaining yarn that has lots of history of the area spun into a tall tale.
Perfect Paperback: 317 pages
Publisher: Authorhouse; First edition
(September 2, 2008)
Language: English
ISBN: 98-1-4389-1713-9(SC)
ISBN: 978-1-4389-1714-6 *NC)
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Author
This comment appears on the back cover of the book for Nissitissit Witch. A big thanks to Donna Erickson for capturing the essence of the book and the spirit of the author so succinctly.
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