![]() Woven into this plot line are three fantastical forces: Maeva’s fantastical shape-shifting past lover the spirit of a witch, who protects Maeva and Leidah and the Fates. Thus begin years of solitude and insecurity for Maeva, whom the townsfolk reject because she is an outsider loneliness for Leidah, who just wants to be an average child and delusion for Pieter, who believes all will be well. ![]() Against this backdrop, Leidah Pietersdatter is born with blue, webbed hands and feet to Pieter, a human father, and to Maeva, a folkloric or mythical creature who was robbed of her skin and natural form by Pieter. The people of the fishing village of Ørken are puritanical in their new beliefs but also resort to the old ways and punishments for the unexplained. ![]() Becoming Leidah is set in 19 th-century Norway at a time when Christianity coexisted with beliefs in pagan or folkloric gods. ![]()
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