The witches of Warboys : an extraordinary story of sorcery, sadism and satanic possession
Almond, Philip C.2008
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On a foggy November day in 1589, when one of the five daughters of Robert and Elizabeth Throckmorton suddenly fell sick, no one in the small English village of Warboys could have predicted the terrifying events that would follow, or envisaged that four years later, in April 1593, the Throckmortons' neighbours Alice, Agnes and John Samuel, would be dragged before a country court on charges of sorcery, enchantment and murder. There is no more dramatic story in the annals of English witchcraft than that of the witches of Warboys, yet this is the first time it has been told. Philip Almond leads us into a half-forgotten world of horror and crime, of victims and victimisers, of spectres, sex with the devil and s©Łcratching' the witch: a macabre and dangerous world where nothing is as it seems, where evil begets evil, and where innocence is betrayed.
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Imprint:
London ; New York : I.B. Tauris, c2008.
Collation:
xvi, 222 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. ; 22 cm.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 201-216) and indexes.
ISBN:
1845115082 (hbk)9781845115081 (hbk)
Dewey class:
133.43094265409031
LC class:
BF1581
Language:
English
BRN:
158060