The Lancashire Witches
Title | The Lancashire Witches PDF eBook |
Author | William Harrison Ainsworth |
Publisher | |
Pages | 532 |
Release | 1882 |
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ISBN |
The Lancashire Witches
Title | The Lancashire Witches PDF eBook |
Author | Robert Poole |
Publisher | Manchester University Press |
Pages | 244 |
Release | 2002 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780719062049 |
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.
Pott's Discovery of Witches in the County of Lancaster
Title | Pott's Discovery of Witches in the County of Lancaster PDF eBook |
Author | Thomas Potts |
Publisher | |
Pages | 356 |
Release | 1845 |
Genre | Witchcraft |
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The Lancashire Witch Craze
Title | The Lancashire Witch Craze PDF eBook |
Author | Jonathan Lumby |
Publisher | Carnegie Pub. |
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.
Pendle Witches
Title | Pendle Witches PDF eBook |
Author | Walter Bennett |
Publisher | |
Pages | 32 |
Release | 1993-12-01 |
Genre | Lancashire (England) |
ISBN | 9781871236279 |
The Wonderful Discovery of Witches in the County of Lancaster
Title | The Wonderful Discovery of Witches in the County of Lancaster PDF eBook |
Author | Thomas Potts |
Publisher | Carnegie Pub. |
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.
The Lancashire witches
Title | The Lancashire witches PDF eBook |
Author | Robert Poole |
Publisher | Manchester University Press |
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.