It's a good film to watch during the Christmas season, when we celebrate the real Incarnation-even as we consider the imagined incarnation in this classic film, made in 1961.

Together, Catlin and Griffin learn that a journey of the heart requires courage, trust and the ability to believe in the astonishing gift of love.Set in the rolling hills of Lancashire, England, Whistle Down the Wind contrasts the basic innocent faith of young children with the harsher worldly beliefs of adults when several children mistaken a man living in their countryside barn for Jesus Christ. Can she take a chance that the man she's trusted her heart to will accept her and her magical powers? When Griffin pledges his love and vows to protect Catlin, she isn't sure she can divulge all of her secrets to him. But there is always danger in harnessing magic and a price to pay when one calls to the spirit world for help. In a dangerous and unexplored world, where superstition exists along side the new discoveries of science, powerful elemental spirits are capable of assisting their magical adepts. But danger lurks aboard ship and evil haunts Catlin. When Catlin and Griffin travel together on a voyage to the American colonies, they try to resist the pull of erotic sensuality that flares between them. When his best friend becomes deathly ill while interrogating a beautiful Welsh maiden accused of using magic to attack a local official – Griffin is forced to strike a bargain with her in order to save his friend’s life. Sir Griffin Reynolds is on his way to the colony of Virginia on a secret mission to locate Puritan rebels intent upon seizing the throne of King Charles II. If her true powers are revealed, she’ll be executed. Escaping from the persecution of the European witch hunts, a beautiful witch with the power to control the wind joins forces with a handsome Cavalier on a mission to save the King of England and the colony of Virginia.Ĭatlin Glyndwr is a tenth generation Mistress of Elements - a hereditary witch who can call upon her elemental spirits for assistance in casting spells.Īccused of witchcraft in seventeenth century England, she faces the hangman.

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