Witches

James I and the English Witch Hunts

New Paperback Illustrated

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When witchcraft was blamed for the deaths of the Earl of Rutland’s two young sons in 1613, a local woman and her daughters paid with their lives. As she tells the story of the Belvoir witches Tracy Borman uncovers the environment in which superstition could lead to torture and execution but also sets out the evidence for an ulterior motive behind the accusation that went to the heart of the Jacobean court.

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