the pendle witches https://bmysteriousworld.runboard.com/t31 Runboard| the pendle witches en-us Thu, 28 Mar 2024 22:40:25 +0000 Thu, 28 Mar 2024 22:40:25 +0000 https://www.runboard.com/ rssfeeds_managingeditor@runboard.com (Runboard.com RSS feeds managing editor) rssfeeds_webmaster@runboard.com (Runboard.com RSS feeds webmaster) akBBS 60 Re: the pendle witcheshttps://bmysteriousworld.runboard.com/p63,from=rss#post63https://bmysteriousworld.runboard.com/p63,from=rss#post63PENDLE HILL TODAY 2 MAPS FOR PENDLE HILL   nondisclosed_email@example.com (MaTTsWoRld)Wed, 12 Sep 2007 08:58:07 +0000 Re: the pendle witcheshttps://bmysteriousworld.runboard.com/p61,from=rss#post61https://bmysteriousworld.runboard.com/p61,from=rss#post61The Pendle Witches: Fact file The Witches of 1612 Note: All witches were hanged at Lancaster unless otherwise stated The Demdike Family: Elizabeth Southerns, alias Demdike, died in gaol Elizabeth Device, daughter of Demdike and mother of James and Alizon Alizon Device James Device The Chattox Family: Anne Whittle, alias Chattox Anne Redferne, daughter of Chattox The Bulcock Family: Jane Bulcock John Bulcock, son of Jane Bulcock The Other Witches: Katherine Hewitt, alias Mouldheels Alice Nutter Magaret Pearson, sentanced to one year in gaol Jennet Preston, hanged at York Isobel Robey   The alleged victims of the Pendle Witches Murdered by Chattox: John Device Hugh Moore of Higham John Moore of Higham Anne Nutter Robert Nutter Murdered by Demdike: Richard Assheton of Downham Child of Richard Baldwin of Wheathead Murdered by Demdike with Elizabeth Device and Alice Nutter: Henry Mitton of Roughlee Murdered by James Device: John Duckworth Blaze Hargreaves of Higham John Hargreaves of Goldshaw Booth Ann Towneley of Carr Murdered by Elizabeth Device: James Robinson John Robinson of Barley Murdered by Katherine Hewitt Anne Foulds of Colne Murdered by Jennet Preston Thomas Lister of Gisburn Murdered by Anne Redfearn Christopher Nutter of Greenhead   The familiars of the Pendle Witches A Black Dog The familiar spirit of Alizon Device Ball The familiar spirit of Elizabeth Device Dandie The familiar spirit of James Device Fancie The familiar spirit of Chattox Tibb The familiar spirit of Demdike A white foal The familiar spirit of Jennet Preston A cloven-hoofed man The familiar spirit of Margaret Pearson   nondisclosed_email@example.com (MaTTsWoRld)Tue, 11 Sep 2007 20:03:53 +0000 the pendle witcheshttps://bmysteriousworld.runboard.com/p58,from=rss#post58https://bmysteriousworld.runboard.com/p58,from=rss#post58 The Pendle Witches: A true story of murder, witchcraft and revenge. The Pendle Witches or Lancashire Witches were the most famous witches in English legal history The Lancahire Witch Trial In the year 1612, at Lancaster gaol, in the English county of Lancashire, ten men and women were hanged for the crime of witchcraft. The Pendle Witches, as they became known, were believed to have been responsible for the murder by witchcraft of seventeen people in and around the Forest of Pendle. Thirteen Witches in Pendle There were in total thirteen Pendle Witches: Alizon Device, Elizabeth Device, James Device, Anne Whittle, alias Chattox, Anne Redferne, Alice Nutter, Katherine Hewitt, John Bulcock, Jane Bulcock & Isobel Robey were the ten hanged at Lancaster gaol. Elizabeth Southerns, alias Demdike, died in Lancaster Gaol awaiting trial, but was nevertheless considered to be a witch on the basis of evidence already given. Jennet Preston, who lived just over the Lancashire border, was tried in Yorkshire and hanged at York in 1612. Finally, Magaret Pearson was found guilty of witchcraft at Lancaster, but not murder, and received a sentance of one years imprisonment.   Murder by Witchcraft The Pendle Witches were accused of selling their souls to familiar spirits or devils who appeared to them in human and animal form. In return for their souls, it was believed that the witches received the power to kill or lame who they pleased. The usual method of murder, descirbed in Demdike's confession, was to make an ethigy of the intented victim, known as a 'picture of clay'. The image was then crumbled or burned over a period of time, causing the victim to fall ill and die. The Witches of Malkin Tower The family at the centre of the witchcraft allegations: Alizon Device, James Device, Elizabeth Device and Demdike lived at a place called Malkin Tower. Demdike, who was in here eighties, was the head of the family and was rumored locally to be a very powerful witch. An important meeting took place at Malkin Tower on Good Friday in 1612. The meeting, believed to have been a witches sabbat, was described to the authorities by James Device. Many of those who attended where later hanged. A Witches Feud Demdike had once been a close friend of another reputed witch Chattox, but they fell out and then feuded bitterly. The dispute between Demdike and Chattox was probably a reason why they and their respective families were willing to make incriminating statements against one another. When Demdike died in gaol, Chattox changed here story, claiming Demdike was responsible for inticing here into witchcraft.    The Wonderful Discoverie... So much is known about the Pendle Witches because the proceedings of the Lancashire trial where recorded by the clerk of the court Thomas Potts and published in the book: The Wonderful Discoverie of Witches in the Countie of Lancaster. The majority of the evidence came from the confessions of just four of the accused: Alizon Device, her brother James Device, their grandmother Demdike, and their enemy Chattox. Witchcraft: fact or fiction? Nobody knows what possesed Alizon and James Device, Demdike and Chattox to make the extrodinary statements that they did. Torture was not used in England to extract confessions from witches as it was on mainland Europe. Towards the end of the trial the prisoners would have confessed in the hope of receiving mercy, but the most important confessions were given pre-trial and seemingly under very little duress. The Pendle Witches incriminated each other, perhaps in the hope of saving themselves, but also gave remarkable accounts of their own activities. Had they remained silent there would very probably have been no trial and no executions. Alizon Device gave here first damning account of witchcraft quite voluntarily, and seems to have genuinely believed in her own guilt and that of her family's. Some suspected witches did protest their innocence to the end and others where aquited when evidence against them was found to have been fabricated. The trials however dubious by today's standards were not a forgone colusion. NB: Modern witches or 'Wiccans' do not worship the devil, who they do not believe exists, and their code of conduct forbids them from working harmful magic.     nondisclosed_email@example.com (MaTTsWoRld)Tue, 11 Sep 2007 19:42:48 +0000