The Wife of Jayhaya - James Farrell - Bog

The village of Old Street, deep in the New England countryside, has been haunted for 400 years by the ingrown family of perverts and sorcerers dwelling in the huge gabled house on the hill above them: the Mathers. Opposite to this hill is the Cemetary on its' own hill, sacred ground and a refuge and fortress against the Mathers. No Mather can enter it, or walk down Old Street. Once they were nobles, rich and powerful; now they are reduced to one man, who ate the others and gained in power: Jason Mather, known as Jayhaya. The Catholic farmers of Old Street wield weapons into which centuries of prayer and consecration reside, the very clasping of which gives them strength against the wizards. The struggle has reached a stalemate, a Balance of Power, which neither can tip without a new factor entering the struggle. The Catholics cannot find any exorcists, and the Mathers, they are only one. Now that a housing development has been built by Jayhaya on one of Old Street's fields, newcomers reside in the village, and by taking sides, can tip this Balance either way. The struggle is chronicled in the seven Jayhaya tales, given in 6 volumes.