Category: Book Reviews
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After Anne Bille’s 15 babies died, she blamed Christenze Kruckow, saying, “You, ’tis you, you are a witch.” (Ravn, p. 11) Anne also blamed Ousse Lauritzens, a domestic helper, for the deaths. Anne said, “No, Ousse, it is something evil, it can only be Satan. But someone has allowed Satan inside me, to enter my…
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No, the Wax Child didn’t get lost during Christenze‘s escape. It got dropped on the ground and was covered by a thin layer of soil. The doll screamed for Christenze’s attention and she heard it. She stopped her carriage, alighted and picked up her wax child, and boarded her carriage again. (Ravn, p. 25) I…
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Christenze is a character in The Wax Child, a book written by Olga Ravn. In 1616, she was hunted by people who wanted to bring her to trial, for performing witchcraft. Christenze left Funen and went to Aalborg. Anne Bille started the witch hunt because she suspected Christenze of doing magic spells to kill all…
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In The Wax Child, authored by Olga Ravn, every local woman who is undergoing delivery of her baby, will get the help of a head midwife, accompanied by a group of women. (Ravn, p. 7) They assist in the mother’s labor, by using a skin girdle. The birthing mother’s pains are transferred to the skin…
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After the wax child was dropped down on the ground, why didn’t insects and worms destroy it? It said in it’s narration, “Insects and worms approached, to retreat on sensing my poison.” (Ravn, p. 3) This book is in the longlist for a chance to win The International Booker Prize Award 2026. This is my…
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Christenze fashioned her wax child from wax and carried her under her right arm. The doll said, “I was borne by my mistress for forty weeks under her right armas if I was a proper child, and my wax was softened by her warmth.” (Ravn, p. 3) The doll said Christenze took her to the…
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Mother Fevronia dreams of Fra Armando lying on top of Monsieur Monsu, with his body and limbs in corresponding position to the dead man’s. (Cartarescu, p. 202 – 203) Fra Armando was giving mouth to mouth resuscitation to Monsieur Monsu. Fra Armando later told the nuns, “He will live, ” he said to himself, in…
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Joan’s ESP told her that something was abnormal Joan Didion wrote that her husband, John Dunne, asked her to write a quote for his use, but later, he changed his mind, and told her she could use his quote for her own book. “When I gave him the note the next day he said “You…
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Meditation & reflection on Genesis 1: 26 – 27 I started on this Bible late, on Wednesday. The first reflection for meditation was based on Genesis 1: 26 – 27. (p. 23) Humans were created in the likeness of God. That is why in created pictures, God is depicted as a human man. The reader…
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How can one man, Fra Armando, practice Catholicism, voodoo, Islam, and Judaism? “There were few people of the Lord in that region, so Fra Armando was forced to work as a voodoo magician as well, two days a week. On another day he served as an imam for a small but active Muslim community, and…