My Mother Is a Witch and This I Know to Be True: The Voices of Pendle

During the Lancaster Assizes in August 1612, a nine-year-old girl is ushered into the courtroom, placed high on a table so that all who had gathered there can see her, and from this position, she denounces her mother as a witch.

Jennet Device was a star witness in the most notorious English witch trials of all time: The Lancashire Witch Trials. Twenty people living in Pendle Hill's shadow were accused of using charms, effigies, and familiar spirits to harm and even murder their enemies. It i...