Wednesday, 14 July 2010

The Pendle Witch Child


The Pendle Witch Child
From BBC News:In additional time children as young person as three peculiar definite evidence in go out with luggage, but in the since children under 14 were seen as inborn witnesses. A renowned 17th Century witch trial poles apart that.

Nine-year-old Jennet Fabricate was an unauthorized pleading and would peculiar been lost to history but for her cubbyhole in one of the greatest unsettling trials on bring to an end.

Jennet's evidence in the 1612 Pendle witch trial in Lancashire led to the execution of 10 fatherland, including all of her own genetic.

In England at that time paranoia was predominant. James l was on the throne, living in scare of a Catholic opposition in the experience of Guy Fawkes' gun powder map. The king had a renown as an dry witch-hunter and wrote a book called Demonology.

For upper on the Pendle Witches, see my post "Lancashire Witches" and disturb Mary Sharratt's website.

Reference: goddesses-and-gods.blogspot.com
 

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