The Lancashire Witches by William Harrison Ainsworth

The Lancashire Witches

William Harrison Ainsworth

717 pages first pub 1854 (editions)

fiction classics historical dark mysterious tense slow-paced
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"May the malediction of Heaven and all its Host alight on the head of thy infant..."With these words Abbot Paslew cursed the child of Nicholas Demdike. Once before, when Demdike had been a monk, he had stood before the abbot. Then he was convicted...

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