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The 1612 Pendle witch trials remain among the most famous in English history. What began with a single accusation soon expanded into a prosecution that would send ten people to the gallows.
Source Materials
Potts, Thomas. The Wonderfull Discoverie of Witches in the Countie of Lancaster (1613)
Almond, Philip C. The Lancashire Witches: A Chronicle of Sorcery and Death on Pendle Hill.
Poole, Robert (ed.). The Lancashire Witches: Histories and Stories.
Sharpe, James. Instruments of Darkness: Witchcraft in Early Modern England.
Gibson, Marion. Witchcraft and Society in England and America, 1550–1750
Gaskill, Malcolm. Witchfinders: A Seventeenth-Century English Tragedy.
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The 1612 Pendle witch trials remain among the most famous in English history. What began with a single accusation soon expanded into a prosecution that would send ten people to the gallows.
Source Materials
Potts, Thomas. The Wonderfull Discoverie of Witches in the Countie of Lancaster (1613)
Almond, Philip C. The Lancashire Witches: A Chronicle of Sorcery and Death on Pendle Hill.
Poole, Robert (ed.). The Lancashire Witches: Histories and Stories.
Sharpe, James. Instruments of Darkness: Witchcraft in Early Modern England.
Gibson, Marion. Witchcraft and Society in England and America, 1550–1750
Gaskill, Malcolm. Witchfinders: A Seventeenth-Century English Tragedy.

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