Something wicked : the lives, crimes and deaths of the Pendle witches
Lee, Carol Ann2025
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On 20 August 1612, ten people from Pendle were executed before a vast crowd at Lancaster's Gallows Hill. The condemned and their associates had endured six months of accusations, imprisonment and torture; their treatment was such that one of the group died in Lancaster Castle's dungeons, while awaiting trial. Today, a thriving tourism industry exists in and around Pendle, the former home of the so-called witches, yet virtually everything we know about the case originates from a single source: Thomas Potts' 'Wonderfull Discoverie of Witches', hurriedly published in 1613 and distinctly skewed in favour of the prosecution. Now, Carol Ann Lee brings a fresh perspective to the story by approaching it as true crime. Her research leads to revelatory discoveries, transforming our knowledge of those shadowy figures behind ill-famed names, and the terrible events that befell them.
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London : John Blake Publishing, 2025.
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320 pages ; 20 cm
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9781789465860 (pbk)
Dewey class:
133.4309427645133.43133.4309
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BF1581
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133.43133.430942764
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English
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4232674
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