![]() Nell Channing is young, pretty and talented, yet she lives in constant fear. Or so it looks, for where would fiction be if magic perfectly solved everything and then vanished? Tourists enjoy its beaches and shops during the summer months, crime is practically non-existent, witchcraft and magic are limited to local lore and to souvenirs for the interested visitors. As we will, so mote it be.”įast forward three hundred years, and the quaint Three Sisters Island is thriving. Out past the cliff and out past the shore, to be severed from this land forever more. Crave rock, crave tree, crave hill and stream. ![]() While terror reigned in Salem, these witches forged an island that would become their sanctuary: In their zealous hunt of witches, they hounded and murdered innocent women.ĭance Upon The Air, by Nora Roberts opens with a story of three sisters, known as Air, Earth and Fire. ![]() ![]() As late as 1692, villagers in Salem, Massachusetts, did not bother to look for or care about facts. Exploration, inventions and scientific discoveries led to expansion of knowledge that changed people’s beliefs and widened their horizons. This belief in four fundamental elements lasted throughout the Middle Ages, until the advent of the Scientific Revolution in the sixteenth and the seventeenth centuries. Ancient Greek philosophers thought that everything in the world was made out of four elements: earth, fire, water and air. ![]()
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