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Originally Posted by shillelagh
watched this last night .. it was very good .. on bbc 4 ... anyway its being repeated at the minute on bbc 4 its on the bbc iplayer as well
some good shots of pendle hill and lancaster castle ..
tis about a 9 year old girl jennet who denounced her whole family and neighbours as witches ... and sent them to the gallows ... and then 20 years later she was tried as a witch .. and was declared innocent ...
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Fascinating factual story to show how dumb people often are particularly when they follow a religion. Jennet was only declared innocent because the boy who made the allegations that got another 20 people arrested (including her) for allegations of witchcraft retracted his story when he confessed that his father was black mailing some of the people arrested and he basically lied for those reasons, because they wouldn't pay up.
Effectively there were no witches - and indicates to me that those who were supposed to stand for good Christians values were actually doing the "Devils" work!
