Part II: Contexts

Chapters in this book

1. Front matter i
2. Contents v
3. Notes on contributors vii
4. Preface x
5. Acknowledgements xiii
6. 1 Introduction 1
7. Part I: The Trials of 1612 19
8. 2 Potts, plots and politics 22
9. 3 Thomas Potts’s ‘dusty memory’ 42
10. 4 ‘Those to whom evil is done’ 58
11. Part II: Contexts 71
12. 5 Witchcraft, economy and society in the forest of Pendle 73
13. 6 The Reformation in the parish of Whalley 88
14. 7 Beyond Pendle 105
15. Part III: Rewriting the Lancashire Witches 123
16. 8 The pilot’s thumb 126
17. 9 Sexual and spiritual politics in the events of 1633–34 and The Late Lancashire Witches 146
18. 10 The ‘Lancashire novelist’ and the Lancashire witches 166
19. 11 Wicca, Paganism and history 188
20. Bibliography 204
21. Index 219