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Joan Flower, Thoth - The Garden (River Walk at Clifton Campus)

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N – Joan Flower haunts the Garden of the University when she is not seeking justice at the Galleries.  She is accompanied, there, by her sometime companion, Thoth.  The Clue for the Gardens is N.

Joan:  My Name be Joan Flower, of Bottesford, near Nottingham, and I had no schoolin’.  But since my death my dear friend, Thoth, hath taught me both to read and write. I be formerly in the employ of Lady Manners of Belvoir Castle.  Then was I falsely and wretchedly accused of casting death spells on the children of Lord Francis Manners, Earl of Rutland.  Here be what they wrote about me and my daughters: 

 "[she] was a monstrous malicious woman, full of oaths, curses, and imprecations, irreligious, and for anything they saw by her, a plain atheist, besides of late days her very countenance estranged, her eyes were fiery and hollow, her speech fell and envious, her demeanor strange and exotic, and her conversation sequestered; so that the whole course of her life gave grave suspicion that she was a notorious witch . . . ."  Moreover reports alleged my daughter, Margaret, to be purloining and carrying provisions out of the Castle, and my other daughter, Phillip, to be "lewdly transported with the love of one Thomas Simpson, who said he was bewitched by her"!

Since in my lifetime I came often to Nottingham to market and to the fair and still haunt these places , I heard of the Learned Sleuths, and wanted  surety that they would find a Book that spoke truth about me