I'm reading La Corriveau : de l'histoire à la légende
It's a fascinating and disturbing book. It's written with academic rigor but reads very well.
La Corriveau, is our big witch back from the dead out to get you story that's been terrorizing kids since the 18th century. The authors did an aweseome research job to find what actually happened and how it turned into a legend.
Long story short, family feuds, religion, sexism, desire to preserve the honour of one's bloodline and a fucked up justice system brought by a conquerant that wants to prove it means business condemns to death a young girl victim of domestic abuse for the murder of her husband she quite likely did not commit.
After this, the brutal and macabre English law of the era that was witnessed for the first time by the local left quite an impression that lingers to this day.
As I said at the start, it's as fascinating as it is disturbing.