#FindOut Friday Answers 32

Here are the answers to your #TriviaTuesday questions. Which ones did you get right? Let me know in the comments!

1. New England witch hunts - Ahh, the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. What times to be alive, especially when a lot of people, mainly women, were accused of witchcraft. The practice of witchcraft is older than that obviously, but the idea came with the Europeans to their New World (mostly New England), the most infamous being in Salem in 1692. The process and history of accusing someone of witchcraft is detailed in both Revolution and From Across the Sea. It's subtle - paying for better shelter and food, begging for someone to look over the case, priests trapping the victims and their families - and it's terrifying.

2. Inoculations/Vaccines - In Casting Shadows, there is plague, and a solution was found. The royal family tried the initial batch of vaccines first. I am not debating vaccines (please look at the science). In the book, they saved lives, but a slip was a serendipitous one, and an easier death for a Queen of Klenard.

3. Anne Boleyn - It's three days until the 489th anniversary of Anne Boleyn's death, so I thought this was appropriate. Commonly known as the second wife of Henry VIII of England (r. 1509-1547), Anne (1501?-1536), Anne Boleyn helped to change history in England by indirectly causing the Reformation. But it's her fate on May 19, 1536 that has intrigued many people for centuries - beheading (by sword) at the Tower of London. She was falsely accused of adultery, incest and treason. This fate was shared with a character in Casting Shadows and The Circle is Broken, Queen Vera Lynn, the main narrator's mother. While Anne Boleyn suffered publicly, the fictional counterpart had a private execution in the woods.

That's it today, everyone. Have a great weekend!

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