However, it's really more of a fantasy novel with a historic setting. What really happened was: What really happened was: The total number of victims was probably between 50,000 and 100,000 -- not 9 million as many believe. This book is Not that. The Burning Time is a literary potion, a finely written and deeply wise book. Never Again The Burning Times: Paganism Revived, by Loretta Orion. Some have claimed that as many as nine million people were killed in the name of “witch hunts.” Not those of the past, but those rearing their moralistic head currently, as we end the 2010s and enter a new decade. The facts are that almost all of the information that is generally accepted as truth by the Neopagan community about the "burning times" is wrong. People and especially women were tortured and killed for an absurd plethora of ridiculous reasons. Through propaganda, those in power are steadily lying to the population and trying to convince them that this time, witches are real; and they must- as always- be persecuted.



The burning times were one of our worlds darkest eras. This is a book that may or may not appeal to some. The phrase Burning Times is often used in modern Paganism and Wicca to indicate the era from the Dark Ages to around the nineteenth century, when charges of heresy were enough to get a witch burned at the stake. "The New Burning Times" is a sociopolitical reaction to the witch trials. For those looking for alternative lifestyles, they will probably be fascinated. —Eve Ensler "Like a torch thrown into a haystack, this book illuminates the dark political night we seem to be slipping into today." The main character, Sybille, is a member of a pagan goddess cult, blessed with supernatural powers, and destined to become even more powerful as the living embodiment of t This was a mediocre book. claiming that our world, our species has moved beyond such a genocide was such an important thought for me at that time.

The Burning Times: A Novel Paperback – March 5, 2002 by Jeanne Kalogridis (Author) To those who have little knowledge concerning modern occultism, they may find it quite interesting. A fast-paced tale of one woman's struggles and choices during the height of a deadly conflict between two civilizations struggling to survive, The Burning Times is an imaginative novella of modern Young Adult Fantasy at its most epic. In The Burning Times, Jeanne Kalogridis transports us on a richly imagined journey to medieval France, where an abbess and a monk unravel their interlocking pasts and discover their true destiny as he hears her confession on behalf of the Inquisition.