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The Lancashire Witches

William Harrison Ainsworth

Book Overview: 

The Lancashire Witches is a highly fictionalized account of the activities of the notorious witches Demdike, Chattox and Alice Nutter who, together with others terrorized the district of Lancashire around Pendle Hill and the Forest of Bowland during the early seventeenth century. The witches named in the book were real enough, if not as witches then as people. Ainsworth, in his story brings in the dissolution of Whalley Abbey and the historic families of Assheton, Braddyll and Nowell and takes us through to the final trial and execution at Lancaster Castle in 1612.

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Book Excerpt: 
. . .Ey con tell ye what she'd do, Suky," replied little Jennet, knowingly; "she'd marry Master Richard Assheton, o' Middleton."

"Jennet!" exclaimed Alizon, blushing crimson.

"It's true," replied the little girl; "ye knoa ye would, Alizon, Look at her feace," she added, with a screaming laugh.

"Howd te tongue, little plague," cried Elizabeth, rapping her knuckles with her stick, "and behave thyself, or theaw shanna go out to t' wake."

Jennet dealt her mother a bitterly vindictive look, but she neither uttered cry, nor made remark.

In the momentary silence that ensued the blithe jingling of bells was heard, accompanied by the merry sound of tabor and pipe.

"Ah! here come the rush-cart and the morris-dancers," cried Alizon, rushing joyously to the window, which, being left partly open, admitted the scent of the woodbine and eglantine by which it was overgrown, as well as the humming sound of the bees by which the flowers were. . . Read More

Community Reviews

Surprise hit! A long-winded romp which bears very little connexion to the reality of the Pendle witch trials and manages to be both endearingly nerdy, crazy plot-twisty, theologically intriguing and...idk. The inside of Willian Ainsworth Harrison's head must have been a really interesting space. Got

I never see the point in repeating the whole of the story synopsis in my review, so I’ll jump right to telling you what I think of the book. While this was very atmospheric, and I loved the constant nods to the geography of the area, the story was, at times, unnecessarily drawn out. I appreciate the

This was an interesting read.

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