Mist Over Pendle

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Jennet was placed on a table and stated that she believed her mother had been a witch for three or four years. This is a beautifully told tale of events leading up to the Pendle Witch Trials, firmly grounded in the beliefs, customs and everyday life of the 17th Century.

Hardcover published by Hutchinson 1956, beige cloth, Good+ some tanning to page edges, in VG dust-jacket, Previous owners signature on front endpaper. The prosecutor was local magistrate Roger Nowell, who had been responsible for collecting the various statements and confessions from the accused. The Demdikes are believed to have lived close to Newchurch in Pendle, and the Chattox family about 2 miles (3. She was found guilty and sentenced to death by hanging; [40] her execution took place on 29 July [41] on the Knavesmire, the present site of York Racecourse.The appellation "Demdike" derives from "demon woman", suggesting that she was "feared and loathed within the community". We have a young puritan girl, Margery, sent to her cousin Roger Nowell because her family doesn’t know what to do with her (she is distinctly un-puritan) and nobody can provide her with a dowry to marry her off. e. those who refused to attend the English Church and to take communion, a criminal offence at that time. Court records show that Lancashire was unusual in the north of England for the frequency of its witch trials. Alice Nutter was unusual among the accused in being comparatively wealthy, the widow of a tenant yeoman farmer.

We build and maintain all our own systems, but we don’t charge for access, sell user information, or run ads. The official publication of the proceedings by the clerk to the court, Thomas Potts, in his The Wonderfull Discoverie of Witches in the Countie of Lancaster, and the number of witches hanged together – nine at Lancaster and one at York – make the trials unusual for England at that time.The most damning evidence given against her was that when she had been taken to see Lister's body, the corpse "bled fresh bloud presently, in the presence of all that were there present" after she touched it.