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About this book
The worldwide persecution of alleged witches in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries has been a source of inspiration for many writers and artists. This fictionalized take on the well-publicized case of the Pendle witches of the Lancashire area in England lays bare the intrigue surrounding the case, as well as the remarkable hypocrisy and unfairness of the officials who were responsible for executing 10 men and women on spurious charges of dabbling in the occult.
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Table of contents
- Title
- Contents
- Dedication
- INTRODUCTION - THE LAST ABBOT OF WHALLEY
- Chapter I - The Beacon on Pendle Hill
- Chapter II - The Eruption
- Chapter III - Whalley Abbey
- Chapter IV - The Malediction
- Chapter V - The Midnight Mass
- Chapter VI - Teter et Fortis Carcer
- Chapter VII - The Abbey Mill
- Chapter VIII - The Executioner
- Chapter IX - Wiswall Hall
- Chapter X - The Holehouses
- BOOK THE FIRST - ALIZON DEVICE
- Chapter I - The May Queen
- Chapter II - The Black Cat and the White Dove
- Chapter III - The Asshetons
- Chapter IV - Alice Nutter
- Chapter V - Mother Chattox
- Chapter VI - The Ordeal by Swimming
- Chapter VII - The Ruined Conventual Church
- Chapter VIII - The Revelation
- Chapter IX - The Two Portraits in the Banqueting-Hall
- Chapter X - The Nocturnal Meeting
- BOOK THE SECOND - PENDLE FOREST
- Chapter I - Flint
- Chapter II - Read Hall
- Chapter III - The Boggart's Glen
- Chapter IV - The Reeve of the Forest
- Chapter V - Bess's O' Th' Booth
- Chapter VI - The Temptation
- Chapter VII - The Perambulation of the Boundaries
- Chapter VIII - Rough Lee
- Chapter IX - How Rough Lee was Defended by Nicholas
- Chapter X - Roger Nowell and His Double
- Chapter XI - Mother Demdike
- Chapter XII - The Mysteries of Malkin Tower
- Chapter XIII - The Two Familiars
- Chapter XIV - How Rough Lee was Again Besieged
- Chapter XV - The Phantom Monk
- Chapter XVI - One O'Clock!
- Chapter XVII - How the Beacon Fire was Extinguished
- BOOK THE THIRD - HOGHTON TOWER
- Chapter I - Downham Manor-House
- Chapter II - The Penitent's Retreat
- Chapter III - Middleton Hall
- Chapter IV - The Gorge of Cliviger
- Chapter V - The End of Malkin Tower
- Chapter VI - Hoghton Tower
- Chapter VII - The Royal Declaration Concerning Lawful Sports on the Sunday
- Chapter VIII - How King James Hunted the Hart and the Wild-Boar in Hoghton Park
- Chapter IX - The Banquet
- Chapter X - Evening Entertainments
- Chapter XI - Fatality
- Chapter XII - The Last Hour
- Chapter XIII - The Masque of Death
- Chapter XIV - "One Grave"
- Chapter XV - Lancaster Castle
- Endnotes