The Pendle Witch Child Part 3

Simon Armitage presents the extraordinary story of the most disturbing witch trial in British history and the key role played in it by one nine-year-old girl. Jennet Device, a beggar-girl from Pendle in Lancashire, was the star witness in the trial in 1612 of her own mother, her brother, her sister and many of her neighbours and, thanks to her chilling testimony, they were all hanged.Armitage explores the lethal power and influence of one child's words, a story of fear, magic and
demonic pacts retold partly with vivid and innovative hand-drawn animation. He discovers how Jennet's appearance in the witness box cast its shadow way beyond Lancashire, impressing lawyers, politicians, clerics and even King James I himself, and setting a dark precedent for child testimony
in witch trials as far away as America. Finally, in a dramatic twist to the tale, he reveals how, twenty two years after the original trial, Jennet's own words were very nearly the death of her - when she herself was put on trial, accused of being a witch by a 10-year-old boy.

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Education

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• pendle witch child
• pendle witches
• trail
• british history
• hangings
• magic
• religion
• bbc documentary

[tounovtwin]

Really love this sort of history , love going round Lancaster castle very interesting and I also hear they are opening up new parts of the castle to the public . Thanks for sharing. 5/1/12 ....

[111aud]

little brat



[Roseblight]

This is horrific, oh my God.

Thank you for uploading.

[teufelstaub]

aaaaaaaaaaaah,the innocence of babes.