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Five Real Life Witch Cases That Shocked The World

The trials of the Pendle witches preceded Salem by almost a century, occurring in 1612 in and around Pendle Hill in Lancashire, a place thought 'wild and lawless’ at the time. 12 were accused of the murders of 10 people in the local area by the use of witchcraft, among them six from the same family, the Demdikes, and others from the Chattox family. Agnes Sampson was the most feted of those accused in the North Berwick witch trials in East Lothian in 1590, which saw more than 100 accused and 70