William Harrison Ainsworth 
The Lancashire Witches 
A Romance of Pendle Forest

‘Here is foam from a mad dog’s lips, gather’d beneath the moon’s eclipse, ashes of a shroud consumed, and with deadly vapor fumed. These within the mess I cast-stir the caldron-stir it fast!’

Historical novelist William Harrison Ainsworth took the court records of the 1612 Pendle witch trials and turned them into a ‘triple decker’ novel, The Lancashire Witches, centered around the claims of necromancy allegedly committed by the Chattox and Demdike families.

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