According to ancient Roman myths, a lemure was the ghost of a person who had died without leaving a blood heir. Dying before having a son or daughter was considered a curse.
Readers, please enjoy this guest blog post by Alice Markham-Cantor, author of the new Once & Future Witch Hunt.
My 9x-great-grandmother, Martha Carrier, was hanged in the Salem witch trials. She wasn't a witch. She wasn't an herbalist or a...