Lancashire Witches, The

By Ainsworth, William Harrison

Book Id: WPLBN0002951907
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File Size: 726.83 MB
Reproduction Date: 2009

Title:	Lancashire Witches, The
Author:	Ainsworth, William Harrison
Volume:
Language:	English
Subject:	Fiction, Historical Fiction, History
Collections:	Audio Books Collection, Lancashire Witches, The
Historic Publication Date:	1889
Publisher:	LibriVox Audio Books


Citation APA MLA Chicago Harrison Ainsworth, B. W. (1889). Lancashire Witches, The. Retrieved from http://www.self.gutenberg.org/

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The Lancashire Witches is a highly fictionalised account of the activities of the notorious witches Demdike, Chattox and Alice Nutter who, together with others terrorised the district of Lancashire around Pendle Hill and the Forest of Bowland during the early seventeenth century. The witches named in the book were real enough, if not as witches then as people. Ainsworth, in his story brings in the dissolution of Whalley Abbey and the historic families of Assheton, Braddyll and Nowell and takes us through to the final trial and execution at Lancaster Castle in 1612. (Summary by Andy Minter)

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Electronic recorded live performance of a reading

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Historical Fiction, History