Something wicked : the lives, crimes and deaths of the Pendle witches
Lee, Carol Ann2024
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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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Author:
Lee, Carol Ann, author
Imprint:
London : John Blake Publishing, 2024.
Collation:
320 pages ; 24 cm
ISBN:
9781789465839 (hbk. :)
Dewey class:
133.430942133.43 LEE 133.4309133.4309427645133.430942764
Language:
English
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BRN:
2443533
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