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The TrialLancashire CountyThe WitchesThomas PottsBeliefs and SuperstitionsDemonologyAnimal FamiliarsImage GallerySourcesHome |
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The Accused Witches1 Elizabeth Southerns, alias Old Demdike2 Elizabeth Device, daughter of Old Demdike 3 James Device, son of Elizabeth 4 Alizon Device, dauther of Elizabeth 5 Jennet Device, daughter of Elizabeth 6 Anne Whittle, alias Old Chattox 7 Anne Redfearn, daughter of Old Chattox 8 Alice Nutter 9 Jane and John Bulcock (Mother and Son) 10 Isabel Robey 11 Katherine Hewit, alias Old Mouldheels 12 Jennet Preston |
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Witchcraft and PoliticsWitchcraft writers wrote to magistrates and rulers using a language that was informed by political theory, but was also meant to emphasize the "godliness" of the ruler versus the "devilishness" of witches. Witchcraft was also not only a crime, but a sin and witchcraft authors used spiritual sources as well as legal ones to emphasize the punishments that witches deserved. "It was precisely because there was a mystical dimension to politics that there was a political dimension to magic; both were modifications of the same world of thought." (Clark, 552) |
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Copyright © 2007 Shannon L. Meyer, University of Nebraska, Lincoln
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