Suzanne Mayfair

The first of the Mayfair witches and the mother of Deborah, she calls forth Lasher in the circle of stones at Donnelaith, Scotland. Known initially as Suzanne of the May Fair, she is a "clever woman" of the village who helps heal the sick. Dimwitted and peaceful, she is also quite beautiful and becomes pregnant during the May festival, where men can have village women freely. Her daughter Deborah, as a product of this, is known as a "merry-begot," and the villagers suspect that the childs father is the earl of Donnelaith himself. Suzanne was a midwife and well famed for her ability to heal and cure. A witch judge passing through the village went to Suzanne for a cut he had on his hand and then stayed the night. He told her to be careful of evil and showed her a book of black magic, 'Demonolgie' and read it to her as she could not read. He taught her the things witches had done and could do while constantly warning her to be careful, "lest the devil tempt you, for the devil loves the midwife and the cunning woman." Years later, with Deborah at her side, she went out into a field and called up a spirit, calling him 'Lasher' by name. Lasher brought her gold, told her secrets of treachery and he sought out to punish those who wronged against her. Suzanne quarrelled with a milkmaid and cursed her. Lasher took it upon himself to rain hail upon the milkmaid. Suzanne's lack of control over Lasher, allowed all to see her magic which eventually lead her to be burnt at the stake, in 1665 or, by some accounts, 1659, as her daughter is made to watch.

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