Witchlight/Corrag
Susan Fletcher
This novel is just poetry. The beautiful language in which the life of Corrag is narrated and her connection with nature display the author's love for this character.
At the biginning of the story, Corrag is imprisoned as she is considered a witch that has helped some of the MacDonald clan to survive a massacre perpetuated by English Soldiers. She narrates her life to Mr. Leslie, an Irishman that is trying to discover King William's implication in the massacre. Being a Jacobite, his cause is to re-establish King James to the throne.
The narration is full of paragraphs that emphasise Corrag's intimate connection with nature:
Things come to us like gifts. They do. Gifts come, and we must take them - for they are the world saying here- this way.
Your heart's voice is your true voice. It is easy to ignore it, for sometimes it says what we'd rather it did not - and it is so hard to risk the things we have. But what life are we living, if we don't live by our hearts? Not a true one. And the person living is not the true you.
Her wisdom populated the pages of the book. Her herbs heal bodies and souls. Her knowled
ge comes from her love to all natural elements that surround her, learning with every step she takes in her life.
- that there will always be the signs that a life was lived. Children, tales, words they said. Places thay named. Marks they left in dust, or on a bark. People they love, and told so.
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