England’s last witches
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Salem Witch Trials - Did You Do It or Didn't You?
It's a very sorry story of what happened to them at exeter. And you can see, frightened, a little bit, gullible, absolutely friendless. The the rub of the cases and its essential charity is that if one person, just one person, man or woman, had spoken up in their defence, they would not have gone to the gallows. Nobody did. So they hanged. That was john callow whose book on the bidderford witches, the last witches of england, is now published by bloomsbury.
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