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The Pendle witches THE PENDLE WITCH TRIALS, ARE PART OF THE DARK HISTORY OF ENGLAND AND ONE OF THE WORST CASES OF WITCH HUNTS IN EUROPE WORDS BY ULRIKE UELZEN. illustrations public domain. pendle photo by dr greg 14 <strong>HEDY</strong>
“ PENDLE BECAME THE SITE OF ONE OF THE WORST WITCH HUNTS IN THE HISTORY OF THE BRITISH ISLANDS The summer of 2012 saw strange goingson in the usually quiet Lancashire countryside around Pendle Hill: the unveiling of a life-sized statue of a woman called Alice Nutter, a procession of 482 people dressed up as witches going up the hill (a world record, actually), and the display of the date “1612” on the hillside, visible throughout the valley. This last event even managed to upset the Bishop of Burnley, Rev. John Goddard. Witches taking over a quiet English village, a mysterious woman with a strange name, and the church being concerned about it all – no, this is not a lost Neil-Gamain-novelplot, this all happened three years ago while we weren’t watching (wish Neil made it a novel, though!). So what lies behind it all? Where does it all begin? Well, the question is rather: when, and that takes us straight back to 1612. In 1612 Lancashire and the Forest of Pendle had a sinister reputation: poor, sparsely populated and remote, the area was thought to be inhabited by rough, near-enough lawless people. Most people were poor and had no education at all. They clung to the old traditions handed down for generations when it came to running their villages and religious matters. Official law did exist, but very often it was abused to settle old feuds, and frequently it was by-passed for mob justice. Official religion as decreed by King James I was the protestant Anglican church, which people had to attend by law, but often people secretly attended Catholic mass. Superstition and belief in ghosts and witchcraft was deeply ingrained in village life, and it is before this background that in 1612 the parish of Whalley in Pendle became the site of one of the worst witch hunts in the history of the British Islands. John Law was a pedlar, a medieval door-to-door tradesman, and March 18th 1612 turned out to be the day disaster struck him down: as he was walking just outside Colne <strong>HEDY</strong> 15
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