13 Facts About Pendle Witches

Pendle Witches's judges were Sir James Altham and Sir Edward Bromley.

Pendle Witches had already appeared before Bromley in 1611, accused of murdering a child by witchcraft, but had been found not guilty.

Pendle Witches pleaded not guilty, but the confession she had made to Roger Nowell—likely under torture—was read out in court, and evidence against her was presented by James Robinson, who had lived with the Chattox family 20 years earlier.

Pendle Witches claimed to remember that Nutter had accused Chattox of turning his beer sour, and that she was commonly believed to be a witch.

Pendle Witches said her mother had a familiar called Ball, who appeared in the shape of a brown dog.

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Jane Bulcock and her son John Bulcock, both from Newchurch in Pendle Witches, were accused and found guilty of the murder by witchcraft of Jennet Deane.

Pendle Witches made no statement either before or during her trial, except to enter her plea of not guilty to the charge of murdering Henry Mitton by witchcraft.

Pendle Witches was the wife of a clothier from Colne, and had attended the meeting at Malkin Tower with Alice Grey.

Pendle Witches seems to have genuinely believed in her own guilt; when Law was brought into court Alizon fell to her knees in tears and confessed.

Pendle Witches was part of the parish of Whalley, an area covering 180 square miles, too large to be effective in preaching and teaching the doctrines of the Church of England: both the survival of Catholicism and the upsurge of witchcraft in Lancashire have been attributed to its over-stretched parochial structure.

Until its dissolution, the spiritual needs of the people of Pendle Witches and surrounding districts had been served by nearby Whalley Abbey, but its closure in 1537 left a moral vacuum.

Burnley's Moorhouse's produces a beer called Pendle Witches Brew, and there is a Pendle Witch Trail running from Pendle Heritage Centre to Lancaster Castle, where the accused witches were held before their trial.

Novel Good Omens by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman features several witch characters named after the original Pendle witches, including Agnes Nutter, a prophet burned at the stake, and her descendant Anathema Device.