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Daughters of the Witching Hill by Mary Sharratt

Introduction This vivid and wrenching novel is based on a real-life witch hunt, during which seven women and two men from Pendle Forest were hanged for witchcraft. The most notorious of the accused, Elizabeth Southerns, or Mother Demdike, cheated the hangman by dying in prison. This is how Thomas Potts describes her in his book [...]