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Continue Good friday, 1612. High on a hill in the wild and lawless area of pendle. A secret meeting is held at the Malkin Tower. By the end of the year 1612, most of those present at the meeting had been sentanced to death at Lancaster Castle - Hanged for the crime of witch craft. Unravelling the mysteries behind one of england's most famous Trials, that of the notorious Pendle witches. Did Alice Nutter and the others really take part in a witches' sabbat? Or where these pendle folk innocent victims at the time of persecution, parania and superstition? This site freely investigates events leading up to the trial, and execution of the lancashire witches. It also questions who held the real power behind the tightly closed doors of Pendle, and how many lives have been destroyed by the fate-ful laws born out of fear. |
