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The Fathomless Caves
Book Six or the Witches of Eileanan

Kate Forsyth
A ROC BOOK



For all those who diedтАФstripped naked, shaved, shorn,

For all those who screamed in vain to the Great Goddess,

only to have their tongues ripped out by the root,

For all those who were pricked, racked, broken on the

wheel for the sins of their Inquisitors.

For all those whose beauty stirred their torturers to fury;

And for those whose ugliness did the same.

And for all those who were neither ugly nor beautiful, but

only women who would not submit.

For all those quick fingers, broken in the vise.

For all those soft arms, pulled from their sockets.

For all those budding breasts, ripped with hot pincers,

For all those midwives, killed merely for the sin of

delivering man to an imperfect world.

For all those witch-women, my sisters who breathed freer

as the flames took them,

knowing as they shed their female bodies,

the seared flesh falling like fruit in the flames,

that death alone would cleanse them of the sin for which