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Daughters Of The Witching Hill

Daughters of theWitching Hill brings history to life in a vivid and wrenching account of a family sustained by love as they try to survive the hysteria of a witchhunt. A copy that has been read but remains intact. From the author of The Dark Ladya novel of Englands trial of the Pendle witches of 1612 and a . No ratings or reviews yet. Product Description Daughters of the Witching Hill brings history to life in a vivid and wrenching. Set in Lancashire England during the infamous witch trials of 1612 DAUGHTERS OF THE WITCHING HILL reveals the true story of Bess Southerns aka Old Demdike cunning woman healer and the most notorious of the Pendle Witches and of Alizon Device her granddaughter struggling to come to terms with her familys troubling legacy. Daughters of the Witching Hill begins with Bess Southerns known as Mother Demdike a poor woman living with her children in Pendle Forest. Mother Demdike Destined to be the most notorious cunning woman of Pendle Forest Bess first comes into her powers at the age of fifty.