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Radio 4 Extra,2 mins

The religious persecution behind the Pendle witch trials

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Novelist Jeanette Winterson investigates the religious persecution behind the Pendle witch trials of 1612. She discovers that James I, the King of England, wrote a handbook about witches titled Daemonologie after believing the North Berwick witches had tried to murder him.

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