Mercy Booths Journal

Black & Wise Casebook XCOCX Salem 1920

This black journal is bound in a dark stained leather cover. The pages are bound in a cunningly braided sinew. The book is written in an middle English and takes some work being translated. Mercy Booth briefly recounts her life in the early settlement of Salem. She recounts being born, and both her parents died in a fire within the first year of her life dying in a barn fire due to "failing to follow the demands of Vysackas."

She comments on Arthur and Priscilla who raised her, she didn't like them much, but they did give her a place to grow up. Her spirit guide Vysackas showed her how to eliminate her cousins. Arthur II died of a poison Vysackas taught her to make. Honest Booth died at sea from a curse Mercy put on him.

Mercy was guided to Byron Crispin, the son of a wealthy man. Mercy worked hard and eventually married him. She was shortly pregnant with a set of twins, as predicted by Vysackas. The children were born in 1670. Shortly after the kids were born Byron started asking uncomfortable questions of Mercy and with the aid of Vysackas she butchered him in the woods, making it look like a roving band of Mohawks killed him.

Mercy Booth built a coven of witches with the aid of Vysackas and learned many dark forms of magic. When she achieved 13 women, they began to use their influence to shape events in the area. They created an underground temple. Vysackas put her in touch with Nyogtha, and she pledged fealty to him in exchange for immortality. Mercy Booth and her witches began traveling to Tsal Garvala located on Antactics millions of years in the past to learn eldritch magic. Artemis Cabot accused her of witch craft in 1693. At first she denied it and publicly fought with him. Her in-laws came to her and took her money from her husbands estate. The family disowned her and her children. Before Mercy Booth could exact revenge, the crowds came for her and her coven mates.