Case file · Witch trials
Pendle witches
One of England's best-recorded trials, in Lancashire.
1612 CE · 53.87, -2.28 · status: documented
The sceptical view
A real, documented historical persecution — the witchcraft accusations themselves had no basis; victims were condemned through torture, rivalry, delusion and fear.
Connections in the atlas
- The Samlesbury witches
- Pendle Hill and the Forest of Pendle
- Thomas Potts’s The Wonderfull Discoverie of Witches
- Edmund Robinson's false accusations