She used blood magic, a type of witchcraft that involved draining the blood of anyone she thought could have useful features. Mother Malkin was one of the most sinister and powerful.
Bony Lizzie uses bone magic, a type of necromancy involving the bones of dead people. Her name is Alice Deane, and she is relative of one of the most dangerous witches in the County-Mother Malkin-and Bony Lizzie. She has an ungodly amount of strength for a girl of her age. Tom refuses and the boys are about to beat him up, when suddenly a girl in pointy shoes shows up and scares them away by telling them a certain person has returned. (Later in the series, we learn that a failed apprentice seeks vengeance on the Spook).Īfter learning what the Spook does, Tom is sent out on an errand to pick up some food for the house, (inside which lives a boggart, in whom the Spook has made a servant of sorts) suddenly some boys about the same age come up and threaten to beat him, unless he gives them some food. He explains that most of his other apprentices have failed, due to them being cowardly, disobedient, or deceased.
The Spooks is actually a caring man and always keeping an eye on his apprentice. He will have to learn how the Spook fights "The Dark" as it's referred to in the book. Tom knows that his parents have agreed to make Tom the apprentice of the Spook. However the religious world hates them, for they are thought to be meddling in the dark powers themselves, which is against the Christian church. Spooks travel they're counties fighting troublesome creatures such as Boggarts, Ghosts/Ghasts, and Witches, for the money of the people who need these things gone. The beginning of the story is told through the eyes of Thomas Ward, and how a cloaked old man carrying a wooden staff in his left hand (as later it is found out from the spook himself that spooks tend to be left-handed) comes to the house. As Tom is the seventh son of a seventh son he is able to see and hear things others cannot such as boggarts, ghasts, ghosts etc.
The Spook's Apprentice (American title: The Last Apprentice: Revenge of the Witch), written by Joseph Delaney, is the first story in the series "The Wardstone Chronicles" The plot is centred around a 13 year old farm boy named Tom Ward who lives in the countryside of The County, loosely based on the English county of Lancashire, where the author resides with his large family. Wardstone Chronicles Book 1: The Spooks Apprentice
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