Author: William Harrison Ainsworth
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 532

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Author: Robert Poole
Publisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 1847795498
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 244

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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.

Author: Jonathan Lumby
Publisher: Carnegie Pub.
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 248

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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.

Author: Thomas Potts
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Witchcraft
Languages : en
Pages : 356

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Author: Thomas Potts
Publisher: Carnegie Pub.
ISBN: 9781874181781
Category : Witchcraft
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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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.

Author: Walter Bennett
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781871236279
Category : Lancashire (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 32

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Author: Richard Brome
Publisher: Theatre Arts Books
ISBN:
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 188

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In this ribald comedy, first performed at The Globe in 1634, everything is going wrong at a wedding, and everyone in attendance is eager to believe a local coven is to blame.

Author: Jeanette Winterson
Publisher: Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
ISBN: 0802193021
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 128

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“A gripping and grisly gothic tale” of Alice Nutter and the 17th century Pendle witch hunt by the Whitbread Award-winning author of The Passion (The Guardian, UK). England, 1612. Less than a decade after the infamous Gunpowder Plot nearly took his life, King James I is paranoid about conspirators and obsessed with heresy. Across the country, laws against Catholicism and witchery are fanatically enforced. On Good Friday, deep in the woods of Pendle Hill, a gathering of thirteen is interrupted by the local magistrate. Two of their coven have already been imprisoned for witchcraft and are awaiting trial, but those who remain are vouched for by the wealthy and respected Alice Nutter. Shrouded in mystery and gifted with eternally youthful beauty, Alice is established in Lancashire society and insulated by her fortune. As those accused of witchcraft retreat into darkness, Alice stands alone as a realm-crosser, a conjurer of powers that will either destroy her or set her free.

Author: Neil Gaiman
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0061991120
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 434

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The classic collaboration from the internationally bestselling authors Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett, soon to be an original series starring Michael Sheen and David Tennant. ?Season 2 of Good Omens coming soon! “Good Omens . . . is something like what would have happened if Thomas Pynchon, Tom Robbins and Don DeLillo had collaborated. Lots of literary inventiveness in the plotting and chunks of very good writing and characterization. It’s a wow. It would make one hell of a movie. Or a heavenly one. Take your pick.” —Washington Post According to The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch (the world's only completely accurate book of prophecies, written in 1655, before she exploded), the world will end on a Saturday. Next Saturday, in fact. Just before dinner. So the armies of Good and Evil are amassing, Atlantis is rising, frogs are falling, tempers are flaring. Everything appears to be going according to Divine Plan. Except a somewhat fussy angel and a fast-living demon—both of whom have lived amongst Earth's mortals since The Beginning and have grown rather fond of the lifestyle—are not actually looking forward to the coming Rapture. And someone seems to have misplaced the Antichrist . . .

Author: Joyce Froome
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781874181620
Category : Pendle (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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The Pendle witchcraft case is a compelling human story, and also provides a dramatic insight into the importance of magic in the lives of our ancestors.