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    Pendle Hill The trials of the Pendle witches in 1612 are among the most famous witch trials in English history, and some of the best recorded of the 17th...
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    Pennsylvania. The story of the Pendle witches is a notorious and well-documented example of cases brought against alleged witches in 17th-century England. The...
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    Lancashire Witches. English author Joseph Delaney in his books series Spook's, incorporated a character named Alice Deane, who is a witch. "Pendle witches Lancashire...
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  • surrounding the hill Pendle College of the University of Lancaster Pendle Vale College, comprehensive school in Nelson, Lancaster Pendle witches, accused in the...
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  • the Pendle witches Elizabeth Device (died 1612), executed as one of the Pendle witches James Device (died 1612), executed as one of the Pendle witches Jennet...
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    In contrast, the others tried at the same assizes, who included the Pendle witches, were accused of maleficium – causing harm by witchcraft. The case against...
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    the twenty men and women accused – amongst them the Pendle witches and the Samlesbury witches – eleven were found guilty and subsequently hanged; one was...
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    Lancashire Witches Walk. Lancashire portal Pendle witches LDWA (website). Lancashire Witches 400 (website). BBC News 2012. Lancashire Witches Walk (map)...
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    Malkin Tower (category History of the Borough of Pendle)
    Wonderfull Discoverie of Witches in the Countie of Lancaster by Potts, Thomas (1613)) Davitt, Jacqueline (2006), Witches and Ghosts of Pendle and the Ribble Valley...
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  • economist, physician, property developer and financial speculator Pendle witches – English witch hunt and trial in 1612 "1991 Award Winners & Nominees". Worlds...
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    Sacred Texts. "Follow the Pendle Witches trail". 21 October 2009 – via news.bbc.co.uk. Sharpe, James (2002). "The Lancaster witches in historical context"...
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    college is named after the Pendle witches of 1612, from the area around Pendle Hill in East Lancashire. The term "Pendle" is associated with a great deal...
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    with the Pendle witches, tried for witchcraft in 1612, as the accused were all from the area. The modern local government district of Pendle was created...
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  • Padiham witch because she lived in the town of Padiham in Lancashire, England, was among those tried with the Pendle witches in the Lancashire witch trials...
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    between 3-4 million people. Common methods of execution for convicted witches were hanging, drowning and burning. Burning was often favored, particularly...
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    published by Henry Colburn. The novel is based on the true story of the Pendle witches, who were executed in 1612 for causing harm by witchcraft. Modern critics...
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  • Lancashire Witches (1848). The 1612 trials were, by no means, the last in the county. For instance, in 1634, there were further witch trials at Pendle itself...
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  • convicted witches were burnt at the stake. Throughout the medieval era, mainstream Christian doctrine had denied the belief in the existence of witches and...
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  • Green Man and the Pendle witches. Studio albums Woodland Rites (2019) Black Harvest (2021) This Heathen Land (2023) EP Free the Witch (2018) Demo Green...
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  • part of the Target Collection. Lancashire Witches Walk Daemonologie, written by King James I Pendle witches Asher-Perrin, Emmet (25 November 2018). "We're...
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    Loudun possessions (category Witch trials in France)
    century, such as the Aix-en-Provence possessions (France) in 1611 or the Pendle witches (England) in 1612 before reaching the New World by the 1690s. In its...
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    Lancaster Assizes on 19 August 1612, in the same series of trials as the Pendle witches. All three were found not guilty in a trial which one historian has...
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    400th anniversary of the trials of the Pendle witches, a new long-distance walking route called the Lancashire Witches Walk has been created. Ten tercet waymarkers...
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    Dunsop Bridge, and hence Clitheroe. It was the route taken by the "Pendle witches" to their trial at Lancaster Castle in 1612. The Grey Stone of Trough...
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    400th anniversary of the trials of the Pendle witches, a new long-distance walking route called the Lancashire Witches Walk has been created. Ten tercet waymarkers...
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    the shadow of Pendle Hill. White Witch 3.9% Blonde Witch 4.4% Pendle Witches Brew 5.1% Premier Bitter 3.7% Pride of Pendle 4.1% Ice Witch 4.3% Straw Dog...
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  • of some of the most dangerous witches in the county: Mother Malkin and Bony Lizzie. The two are powerful witches in Pendle, a town conducive to the use...
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  • presents a fictional account of the events leading up to the famous Pendle witches trial in 1612. Neill was born in Prestwich, Lancashire, England, into...
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  • called Pendle Hill, which is famous for tales of witches and ghouls. As a result the first model produced by the company was named the Pendle Witch. Many...
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    Higham, Lancashire (category Towns and villages in the Borough of Pendle)
    Lee, now Higher White Lee Farm, Higham. The Pendle Witches. One of the families swept up in the Pendle Witch Trials of 1612 was the 'Chattox' clan, based...
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