The Lancashire Witches by William Harrison Ainsworth Fiction Horror Fairy Tales Folk Tales Legends & Mythology

<p><strong>A hundred years ago churchmen in Lancashire set upon one another -- one sold his soul to the devil and used his unfathomable power to send his rival to the gallows. </strong>The man he condemned died cursing him and his children . . . and those children became The Lancashire Witches. Mother Demdike -- the crone who was the child of the man who sold his soul to the devil -- has become an arcane monster and she and her vile family are challenged only by their witchly rivals Mother Chattox and Alice Nutter. . . .</p>