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  2. Pendle witches - Wikipedia

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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 ...

  3. The Witchfinders - Wikipedia

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    The Thirteenth Doctor and her companions arrive in 1612 Lancashire near Pendle Hill. At a nearby village they find an old woman accused of witchcraft being dunked, and the Doctor tries to save her, but fails. She attempts to prevent further trials by pretending to be the Witchfinder General, fooling landowner and magistrate Becka Savage.

  4. Alice Nutter (alleged witch) - Wikipedia

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    Unlike many accused of witchcraft, Alice was a member of a wealthy and noble family who owned land in Pendle. [1] She was accused of being present at a witch's coven on Good Friday, 1612, and later causing the death of Henry Milton. Her principal accuser was a nine-year-old girl called Jennet Device

  5. Malkin Tower - Wikipedia

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    Malkin Tower (or the Malking Tower or Mocking Tower) was the home of Elizabeth Southerns, also known as Demdike, and her granddaughter Alizon Device, two of the chief protagonists in the Lancashire witch trials of 1612. Perhaps the best-known alleged witches' coven in English legal history took place in Malkin Tower on 10 April 1612.

  6. The Wonderfull Discoverie of Witches in the Countie of ...

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    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 ...

  7. Suranne Jones investigates Pendle witch trials - AOL

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  8. The Lancashire Witches - Wikipedia

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    Pendle Hill. It is late November 1536. Eight men, prominent among them John Paslew, Abbot of Whalley and the self-styled Earl of Poverty, are gathered together by a beacon at the top of Pendle Hill. An uneasy armistice has been declared in the Pilgrimage, and beacons have been built on high ground to act as a renewed summons to arms should they ...

  9. Love 'A Discovery of Witches' on Netflix? Read the Books The ...

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    A Discovery of Witches: A Novel (All Souls Trilogy, Book 1) A Discovery of Witches , the first book in the All Souls Trilogy , serves as the basis for season one of the TV show.