The witches of Warboys an extraordinary story of sorcery, sadism and satanic possession - Almond, Philip C. (I.B. Tauris, 2008)
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-216) and index
Acknowledgements; List of Plates; List of Characters; Prologue; Part One -- Bewitched and Bewildering: November 1589 to December 1590; Part Two -- An Infestation of Devils: Michaelmas Day 1592 to 31 December the Same Year; Part Three -- Agnes Accused: 1 January 1953 to 3 April the Same Year; Part Four -- The Trial: 4 April to 6 April 1593; Epilogue; Notes; Bibliography; Index of Persons; Index of Subjects
On a foggy November day in 1589, when one of the five daughters of Robert and Elizabeth Throckmorton suddenly fell sick, no one in the small English village of Warboys could have predicted the terrifying events that would follow. Or envisaged that four years later, in April 1593, the Throckmortons' neighbours Alice, Agnes and John Samuel, would be dragged before a country court on charges of sorcery, enchantment and murder. There is no more dramatic story in the annals of English witchcraft than that of the witches of Warboys. Yet, despite a rich and colourful cast of characters, and a potent