Old Mother Damnable: A Christmas Witch Story from 1734

All About our Coal Fire: Christmas Entertainments (1734) is an influential and charming comic portrayal of all the customs of Christmas. The book describes feasts, silly games, drinking and scary stories around the hearth. It was popular for many years and probably influenced Dickens. The stories and legends in the book (such as the oneContinue reading “Old Mother Damnable: A Christmas Witch Story from 1734”