The Lancashire Witches : William Harrison Ainsworth

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/257387 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Lancashire Witches Author: William Harrison Ainsworth Narrator: Andy Minter Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 25 hours 17 minutes Release date: January 1, 2016 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.63 of Total 8 Ratings of Narrator: 2 of Total 2 Genres: LGBTQ+ Publisher's Summary: The Lancashire Witches is a highly fictionalised account of the activities of the notorious witches Demdike, Chattox and Alice Nutter who, together with others terrorised the district of Lancashire around Pendle Hill and the Forest of Bowland during the early seventeenth century. The witches named in the book were real enough, if not as witches then as people. Ainsworth, in his story brings in the dissolution of Whalley Abbey and the historic families of Assheton, Braddyll and Nowell and takes us through to the final trial and execution at Lancaster Castle in 1612. (Summary by Andy Minter)