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Pendle Hill from the northwest. On the right is the eastern edge of Longridge Fell, which is separated from Pendle Hill by the Ribble valley.. The accused witches lived in the area around Pendle Hill in Lancashire, a county which, at the end of the 16th century, was regarded by the authorities as a wild and lawless region: an area "fabled for its theft, violence and sexual laxity, where the ...
On Good Friday, 10 April 1612, [17] Malkin Tower was the venue for perhaps the best-known alleged witches' coven in English legal history. [18] The house was home to Elizabeth Southerns, also known as Demdike, [c] and her granddaughter Alizon Device, [20] two of the alleged Pendle witches.
The 1990 novel Good Omens by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman (later adapted for television) features several witch characters named after the original Pendle witches, including Agnes Nutter, a prophet burned at the stake, and her descendant Anathema Device. [5] [6] In 2012 a statue of Nutter was unveiled in Roughlee by local celebrity Bobby ...
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The novel is based on the true story of the Pendle witches, who were executed in 1612 for causing harm by witchcraft. Modern critics such as David Punter consider the book to be Ainsworth's best work. [2] E. F. Bleiler rated the novel as "one of the major English novels about witchcraft". [3]
Burned as a witch. Her husband paid 320 Gulden as "confiscation" to the Gentlemen' Chamber in Rheinfelden. [12] Elin i Horsnäs: d. 1611 Sweden: Beheaded after her second trial for witchcraft. Alice Nutter: d. 1612 England: Hanged during Pendle witches hunt Pendle witches: d. 1612 England: Unknown. Evaline Gill: d. 1616 Scotland
Allison tells Dani and Max that the Sanderson sisters' spellbook was a gift from Satan. Later in the film, the witches confirm that they knew Satan after mistaking a man in a Halloween costume for ...
Potts has been described as an "active and selective reporter"; [8] he omits significant details of court procedure in the early 17th-century English legal process, such as that all indictments were initially submitted to a grand jury, whose task was to decide whether there was a prima facie case against the accused before the prisoners were taken into the courtroom to be tried by the petty ...