The Lancashire witches: histories and stories

A study of England's biggest and best-known witch trial, which took place in 1612 when ten witches from the forest of Pendle were hanged at Lancaster. A little-known second trial occured in 1633-4, when up to nineteen witches were sentenced to death

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Format: Buch
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Manchester Manchester University Press 2002
Ausgabe:1. publ.
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Zusammenfassung:A study of England's biggest and best-known witch trial, which took place in 1612 when ten witches from the forest of Pendle were hanged at Lancaster. A little-known second trial occured in 1633-4, when up to nineteen witches were sentenced to death
Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references and index
Introduction : the Lancashire witches in historical context / James Sharpe -- Potts, plots and politics : James I's Daemonologie and The wonderfull discoverie of witches / Stephen Pumfrey -- Thomas Pott's 'dusty memory' : reconstructing justice in The wonderfull discoverie of witches / Marion Gibson -- 'Those to whom evil is done' : family dynamics in the Pendle witch trials / Jonathan Lumby -- Witchcraft, economy and society in the forest of Pendle / John Swain -- The Reformation in the parish of Whalley / Michael Mullett -- Beyond Pendle : the 'lost' Lancashire witches / Kirsteen Macpherson Bardell -- The pilots thumb : Macbeth and the Jesuits / Richard Wilson -- Sexual and spiritual politics in the events of 1633-34 and The late Lancashire witches / Alison Findlay -- The 'Lancashire novelist' and the Lancashire witches / Jeffrey Richards -- Wicca, paganism and history ; contemporary witchcraft and the Lancashire witches / Joanne Pearson
Beschreibung:xiv, 226 S. 25 cm

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