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The Lancashire Witch Craze: Jennet Preston and the Lancashire Witches, 1612

by Jonathan Lumby

£7.50

Was there really a satanic coven on Pendle side? Or was Jennet framed by Lister’s son? This very popular book separates the myth from the legend on the Lancashire `witches’.

‘Jennet Preston lies heavy upon me,’ cried Thomas Lister on his deathbed. We are told that his corpse bled when she touched it … and Jennet was convicted of witchcraft. Was there really a satanic coven on Pendle side? Or was Jennet framed by Lister’s son? And were the other ‘witches’ actually caught up in a much broader and more disturbing pattern of religious persecution?

In this best-selling account, Jonathan Lumby presents a remarkable series of new insights. By placing the events in their wider European context, he explains far more satisfactorily than ever before exactly why these disturbing events occurred.

Binding:

softback

ISBN:

978-1-85936-025-5

Pages:

240

Illustrations:

55

Date of Publication:

1995

Dimensions:

216 × 138 mm