Tom recognizes that she has the characteristics of a witch, but he doesn’t tell Gregory. She helps save him from a group of bullies. While traveling through the town, Tom meets a young girl named Alice. This limits how Gregory is able to deal with witches. Witches are very hard to kill, and many of the methods are inhumane. Gregory shows Tom that he has a witch imprisoned in the garden. Tom is introduced to the boggart that works inside of Gregory’s house and protects the area from any spirits. He begins to teach Tom about hunting witches and evil spirits. With the first trial of spending the night in the house completed, Gregory takes Tom to his present home in Chipenden. His father locked him in the cellar because he was tired of hearing him complain. Gregory could sense their spirits when he was a child. The husband believed that she was cheating on him, so he knocked her out and buried her alive in the cellar. The husband got injured and couldn’t work, so his wife found a job without telling her husband. He talks about how in the past there was a couple that lived in the home.
Gregory reveals to him that this was his own childhood home. Tom manages to stay the night in the house. Gregory takes Tom to the nearby town of Horshaw where he must spend the night alone in a haunted house. The long hours and travel are on top of the obvious difficulties associated with fighting malevolent spirits. The hours are long, and it involves a lot of travel. Gregory explains how hard it is being a spook. When Tom meets the current spook, later identified as Gregory, he finds out that Gregory has this ability as well. Tom and his mother share the ability of being able to communicate with the dead. Tom is afraid that he’ll live a lonely life, but his mother reassures him, telling him that she married his father and had all of her other sons because she needed Tom to be the seventh son. Spooks are feared by the community because of their dangerous profession. A spook is someone who fights against supernatural threats such as witches, ghosts, and other evil spirits. Since work is scarce, Tom is going to become a spook. It’s hard for his family to find work for him because his family has used up their favors to get his older siblings jobs. The novel opens with Tom, the narrator, telling that he is the seventh son of a seventh son. The Last Apprentice: Revenge of the Witch is the first book in a series by Joseph Delaney.
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