Jennet Device and the Pendle Witches
In this minisode, we do a quick sweep through the sad tale of Jennet Device, the nine-year-old beggar girl whose testimony condemned her mother, sister, brother and neighbours to death for withcraft. A victim of the cruel times in which she lived and the ambitions of the pious Roger Newell, we look at how Jennet comes to find herself on the stand at Lancaster assizes as the star witness in the most infamous witch trials in English history.
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