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  2. The Lancashire Witches - Wikipedia

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    The Lancashire Witches is the only one of William Harrison Ainsworth's forty novels that has remained continuously in print since its first publication. [1] It was serialised in the Sunday Times newspaper in 1848; a book edition appeared the following year, published by Henry Colburn .

  3. Thomas Shadwell - Wikipedia

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    The Lancashire Witches and Teague O'Divelly, the Irish Priest (1682) Bury Fair (1689) The Amorous Bigot, with the second part of Teague O'Divelly (1690) The Scowerers (1691) The Volunteers, or Stockjobbers, published posthumously (1693)

  4. 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 ...

  5. Folklore of Lancashire - Wikipedia

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    An illustration of Ann Redferne and Chattox, two of the Pendle witches, from Ainsworth's novel The Lancashire Witches. The Pendle witch trials of 1612 associated Lancashire with witchcraft in the popular imagination: this was particularly so in the nineteenth century after William Ainsworth's celebrated historical novel The Lancashire Witches (1848).

  6. Newchurch in Pendle - Wikipedia

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    The "Eye of God" is built into the west side of the tower [1] as a deterrent from evil spirits. To the east of the porch, up against the south wall, is the grave of a member of the Nutter family (carved with a skull and crossbones). Local legend has it that it is the last resting place of Alice Nutter, one of the famous Pendle witches. [1]

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  8. Edmund Robinson - Wikipedia

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    Edmund Robinson was an English ten-year-old boy from Wheatley Lane, Lancashire, who sparked a witch-hunt. His story was the inspiration for the 1634 play The Late Lancashire Witches . [ 1 ]

  9. The Late Lancashire Witches - Wikipedia

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    The Late Lancashire Witches belongs to a subgenre of English Renaissance drama that exploited public interest in the scandalous subject of witchcraft. The most famous of these plays is Shakespeare's Macbeth (c. 1603–6), though Middleton's The Witch (c. 1609–16) and The Witch of Edmonton (1621) by Thomas Dekker, John Ford, and William Rowley, are other notable examples.