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The Pendle Witches of Lancashire: Betrayal, Trials & Ten Hangings | England's Darkest Witch Hunt

In 1612, a nine-year-old girl stood before a court in Lancaster and condemned her own mother, brother, and grandmother to death. Her testimony would send ten people to the gallows in England's most extensively documented witch trial. This is not folklore. This is not legend. Every detail you will hear comes from court records, interrogation transcripts, and contemporary accounts. This is the story of how fear, poverty, and legal machinery combined to destroy an entire community—and how a child's words became the weapon that killed her family. 🕯️ THE PENDLE WITCH TRIALS: A DOCUMENTED NIGHTMARE On March 18th, 1612, Alizon Device encountered a peddler named John Law on a road near Colne, Lancashire. She asked for pins. He refused. She cursed him. Minutes later, he collapsed with symptoms of a stroke. Within four months, twenty people would be arrested, ten would hang, and one would die in prison. The catalyst? A child's testimony that grew more elaborate with each interrogation. But this is not a story about witches. This is a story about what happens when economic desperation meets religious paranoia, when communities weaponize law against their most vulnerable, when children are used to condemn their parents, and when civilized society commits atrocities while believing itself to be defending goodness.