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While the witches of Pendle are Lancashire's most famous, the legend of Meg Shelton is well-known in Preston. Tales of the 17th Century sorceress abound in the village of Woodplumpton, where she was ...

When James I (or VI) came to the throne, he brought with him a zeal for witch-hunting. Witches were the popular evil of the day – they provided a very convenient scapegoat, and a way of clamping down ...

It’s 1612 and Lancashire is ablaze with a witch hunt. Nine-year-old Jennet Device unwittingly becomes the face of a witch trial. Her testimony, unprecedented for a child, seals her family’s fate. 24 ...

Jeanette Winterson’s new novel is a strange and spare piece of horror writing about witch trials that arrives on these shores just in time for Halloween. “The Daylight Gate” is based on a real-life ...

Secret Catholic or secret witch, the mystery surrounding Alice Nutter remains. Statue of Alice Nutter in Roughlee, England (photo: Hornbeam Arts, CC BY-NC 2.0, via Flickr, https://flic.kr/p/eEwe6Y) ...

In 1612, Jennet Device’s sister was out, begging. The pedlar she’d targeted wasn’t offering anything up, so she cursed him. Unfortunately for her, her family and other residents of Pendle, Lancashire ...

Many Americans associate witch trials with colonial Massachusetts, mass hysteria, Arthur Miller’s play “The Crucible” and the 1996 film adaptation of the play starring a wild-eyed Winona Ryder. It’s ...

Pendle Hill is a popular walking route for locals and visitors to Lancashire, but some people have been left less than impressed when completing the walk to the top. The Lancashire landmark is “most ...

IN “The Wonderful Discoverie of Witches in the Countie of Lancaster” we have one of the most authentic documents in the whole literature of witchcraft. It was written as an account of the trial of a ...