The Pendle Trials saw 10 women and men executed after being found guilty of black magic. Yet 400 years later, despite the ...

My studio is only a 10-minute walk from the castle in which the Pendle witch trials happened in 1612 when men and women were ...

The book is also an exercise in dispelling various popular perceptions ... The latter was common in early-modern witch-hunts: the key witness in the Pendle witch-trial in 1612, for example, was a ...

Witches and witch trials remain a source of enduring curiosity. Julie Stone Peters, H. Gordon Garbedian Professor of English ...

In this first episode of a limited series, Inside the Witch Trials, we go back to the English village of Pendle in 1612, to find out how and why a nine year old girl was able to condemn her family ...

Pendle Hill, which is popular with outdoor enthusiasts, is known in local folklore for its links with the 1612 witch trials and also as the location which inspired the start of the Quaker movement ...

The Crucible” is a dramatization of the Salem Witch Trials that took place in the Massachusetts Bay Colony during 1692-1693. American playwright Arthur Miller penned the play as an allegory for ...

In the years before King James VI of Scotland inherited the English throne too, he oversaw a rather brutal witch trial that would go down in history as one of Europe's bloodiest. Visitors to North ...

On this day in 1690, "Publick Occurrences Both Forreign and Domestick" attracted colonial officials' ire by repeating a scandalous rumor and condemning a British alliance with the Mohawk Meilan ...

Del. Heather Bagnall, D-Anne Arundel County, is the sole resolution sponsor that would require the state government to formally apologize to colonists who faced witch trials prior to the nation ...

"The Witches of Pendle" does exactly what it says on the tin - a 70 minute dramatisation of one of the more famous so-called "witch trials" ever to be held in medieval England, those of the "Pendle ...