Hex to the No (Lilith Blackward Cozy Witch Series Book 2) by Constance Barker

Author:Constance Barker [Barker, Constance]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Constance Barker
Published: 2019-08-23T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 6

A VERY BRIEF HISTORY OF AMADEUS ESSEX

“You’re nothing Amadeus, a stain on our family name and a failure as a man and as a warlock.”

Life can be hard for those who grow up in a family of talented witches and warlocks. Especially if an individual is thought to be less than his siblings. That was how life started for an awkward boy named Amadeus Essex.

Amadeus was the youngest of three boys and one girl. His brothers, Sterling, Harold and Arthur were all powerful warlocks. Sterling was in training to become an inquisitor. Harold enrolled in the coven police and Arthur was a sergeant well on his way to his eventual position as chief of coven police.

The pressure on Amadeus to be great, live up to the family standard, was high. And that never fit well with his more laid back personality. It didn’t really help that he was naturally a very talented warlock. Things came easy to him making it hard for him to take anything seriously.

Everyone’s life can really be broken down into a series of moments. Some innocuous and forgotten. Other moments were integral ingredients into what made someone who they eventual become.

The first big moment in Amadeus’ life happened when he was young, maybe seven or eight years old. Instead of going out hunting with his father and siblings, he preferred to stay home and play with his action figures. He’d try to stage big productions, battles and story lines with his toys that could take up the better part of a day. Only there were limitations to what he could accomplish.

It wasn’t Amadeus’ imagination that limited him. It was the fact that action figures weren’t alive and had to be handled each, by hand, to perform any action in the elaborate scenarios he thought up. So he had an idea. Why not use magic to control his toys.

Knowing that he didn’t have the knowledge to perform any spell that would animate the action figures, Amadeus turned to his father’s office. In there was a library that had spell books and grimoires that dated back to ancient Rome. Somewhere in there must’ve been the right incantation.

Young Amadeus discovered a book called “Daemonum Liber Exponentia”. Written by a witch in Salem right after the infamous witch trials, it listed the spells used to whip a whole town into mass hysteria. One spell stood out, the Pupa or Puppet Spell.

The puppet spell allowed the caster to control other living creatures, like its namesake, a puppet. Well that was a whole lot better than controlling action figures. At that age Amadeus didn’t quite understand it or how to actually cast the spell but again, he was gifted and a very fast learner.

Amadeus Essex started experimenting. He had victims, squirrels, birds and other small woodland creatures. Through trial and error and a couple years time, he finally perfected the puppet spell. The first time he used it was on one of his family’s house keepers.

“You’re nothing Amadeus, a stain on our family name and a failure as a man and as a warlock.

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