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Roughlee is home to the Alice Nutter statue - a public piece of art commemorating the Pendle Witch Trials. While Barley offers the Pendle Sculpture Trail at Letcliffe Park.
Roughlee is home to the Alice Nutter statue - a public piece of art commemorating the Pendle Witch Trials. While Barley offers the Pendle Sculpture Trail at Letcliffe Park.
The Lancashire landmark is “most famous for its links to the now notorious witch trials of 1612”, combining “stunning scenery” with a touch of history. While many appreciate Pendle Hill ...
NORTH ANDOVER — A new memorial is being proposed to bring attention to the town’s significant role in the infamous Salem Witch Trials and the injustices which the accused faced.
In 1692, Salem Village, Massachusetts, became the epicenter of a notorious series of witch trials fueled by fear, superstition, and social tensions. Over the course of a year, more than 200 ...
Lancashire’s most famous connection to witchcraft remains the 1612 Pendle witch trials, in which ten people were found guilty and hanged.
Nicola Sturgeon says Rupert Everett used ‘deeply misogynistic tropes’ after he called her ‘a witch’ in an interview with The Herald ...
Unsurprisingly, after an edict was issued in 1611 to halt the Basque Country’s rampant witch trials – following the realisation that tall tales were behind much of the hysteria – the perceived ...
"I am interested in modern pilgrimage as an act of honouring and devotion. "Walking was central to the lives of people in the 1600s and to the trials of the women persecuted as witches. "In making ...
In 1692, the colonial town of Salem, Massachusetts, became caught up in a fervor over alleged witchcraft. In her new book “The Witches,” Stacy Schiff explores what led a group of Puritans to ...