Real Witches On Trial - The Pendle Witch Child - Documentary Film

The tests of the Pendle witches in 1612 are among one of the most popular witch trial in English past history, and several of the most effective tape-recorded of the 17th century. The twelve implicated stayed in the area around Pendle Hill in Lancashire, and were asked for with the murders of ten people by the use of witchcraft. All yet 2 were attempted at Lancaster Assizes on 18-- 19 August 1612, along with the Samlesbury others and witches, in a collection of trials that have become known as the Lancashire witch trials. One was attempted at York Assizes on 27 July 1612, and one more died in prison. Of the eleven that visited test-- nine females and 2 males-- ten were condemned and carried out by hanging; one was found not guilty.
The official magazine of the proceedings by the clerk to the court, Thomas Potts, in his The Wonderfull Discoverie of Witches in the Countie of Lancaster, and the variety of witches hanged together-- 9 at Lancaster and one at York-- make the tests uncommon for England back then. It has been approximated that the English witch trials between the early 15th and very early 18th centuries resulted in less than 500 executions; this collection of tests represent more than 2 percent of that total.
6 of the Pendle witches came from either family members, each at the time goinged by a woman in her eighties: Elizabeth Southerns (aka Demdike [a], her daughter Elizabeth Device, and her grandchildren James and Alizon Device; Anne Whittle (aka Chattox), and her daughter Anne Redferne. The others charged were Jane Bulcock and her boy John Bulcock, Alice Nutter, Katherine Hewitt, Alice Gray, and Jennet Preston. The break outs of witchcraft in and around Pendle could demonstrate the degree to which individuals might earn a living by positioning as witches. Numerous of the allegations arised from allegations that members of the Demdike and Chattox families made against each various other, perhaps considering that they were in competition, both attempting to earn a living from healing, begging, and extortion.