The Lancashire Witches
Author | : William Harrison Ainsworth |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 532 |
Release | : 1882 |
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Author | : William Harrison Ainsworth |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 532 |
Release | : 1882 |
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Author | : Robert Poole |
Publisher | : Manchester University Press |
Total Pages | : 244 |
Release | : 2013-07-19 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1847795498 |
This book is the first major study of England's biggest and best-known witch trial which took place in 1612, when ten witches were arraigned and hung in the village of Pendle in Lancashire. The book has equal appeal across the disciplines of both History and English Literature/Renaissance Studies, with essays by the leading experts in both fields. Includes helpful summaries to explain the key points of each essay. Brings the subject up-to-date with a study of modern Wicca and paganism, including present-day Lancashire witches. Quite simply, this is the most comprehensive study of any English witch trial.
Author | : Jonathan Lumby |
Publisher | : Carnegie Pub. |
Total Pages | : 248 |
Release | : 1995 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
This bestseller presents a remarkable series of new insights into the Lancashire Witch Craze. By placing the events in their wider European context, it explains far more satisfactorily than ever before exactly why these disturbing events occurred.
Author | : Thomas Potts |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 356 |
Release | : 1845 |
Genre | : Witchcraft |
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Author | : Thomas Potts |
Publisher | : Carnegie Pub. |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2011 |
Genre | : Witchcraft |
ISBN | : 9781874181781 |
Thomas Potts' famous account of the Pendle witch trials of 1612 is the only original source of information about the events, and in this new version historian Robert Poole makes the text accessible and usable for 21st-century readers.
Author | : William Harrison Ainsworth |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 500 |
Release | : 1870 |
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ISBN | : |
Author | : Richard Brome |
Publisher | : Theatre Arts Books |
Total Pages | : 188 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : |
In this ribald comedy, first performed at The Globe in 1634, everything is going wrong at a wedding, and everyone in attendance is eager to believe a local coven is to blame.
Author | : Joyce Froome |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : Pendle (England) |
ISBN | : 9781874181620 |
The Pendle witchcraft case is a compelling human story, and also provides a dramatic insight into the importance of magic in the lives of our ancestors.
Author | : William Harrison Ainsworth |
Publisher | : e-artnow |
Total Pages | : 550 |
Release | : 2019-12-18 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : |
This novel is based on the true story of the Pendle witches, who were executed in 1612 for causing harm by witchcraft. The story begins against the backdrop of the 1536 Pilgrimage of Grace, an uprising by northern Catholics against the English Reformation instituted by King Henry VIII. John Paslew, Abbot of Whalley tries to organize his forces in preparation for joining the main body of the rebel army, but he collides with Nicholas Demdike, known as the husband of a notorious witch. Demdike foretells the death of abbot, but claims that he can help him if he baptizes Demdike's daughter. The abbot declines, cursing the child to be a witch and the mother of witches. Following story is based largely on the official account of the Lancashire witch trials.
Author | : Philip C. Almond |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 240 |
Release | : 2017-01-30 |
Genre | : Body, Mind & Spirit |
ISBN | : 1786739704 |
In the febrile religious and political climate of late sixteenth-century England, when the grip of the Reformation was as yet fragile and insecure, and underground papism still perceived to be rife, Lancashire was felt by the Protestant authorities to be a sinister corner of superstition, lawlessness and popery. And it was around Pendle Hill, a sombre ridge that looms over the intersecting pastures, meadows and moorland of the Ribble Valley, that their suspicions took infamous shape. The arraignment of the Lancashire witches in the assizes of Lancaster during 1612 is England's most notorious witch-trial. The women who lived in the vicinity of Pendle, who were accused, convicted and hanged alongside the so-called 'Salmesbury Witches', were more than just wicked sorcerers whose malign incantations caused others harm. They were reputed to be part of a dense network of devilry and mischief that revealed itself as much in hidden celebration of the Mass as in malevolent magic. They had to be eliminated to set an example to others. In this remarkable and authoritative treatment, published to coincide with the 400th anniversary of the case of the Lancashire witches, Philip C Almond evokes all the fear, drama and paranoia of those volatile times: the bleak story of the storm over Pendle.