“Witches – so that’s the 17th century?” It is a natural assumption; after all, the trials and persecutions of that period are large in popular consciousness when it comes to witchcraft. Today’s delve into the library, however, highlights the timeless nature of the witch. We visit the quiet Warwickshire village of Lower Quinton, where the readiness to blame witchcraft for unexplained calamity was alive and well in the 20th Century.
read more Latimer’s Library: Death by Witchcraft? Charles Walton and the Witchcraft Murder.
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