01759cam a22003373u 4500 15493 UtSlPG 20260610133349.0 m cr n 260607r2005||||utu|||||o|||||||||||||| d UtSlPG en iso639-1 PR Ainsworth, William Harrison, 1805-1882 The Lancashire Witches: A Romance of Pendle Forest Salt Lake City, UT : Project Gutenberg, 2005 1 online resource : multiple file formats text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lancashire_Witches Release date is 2005-03-29 Produced by Clare Boothby, Jon King and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team. "The Lancashire Witches: A Romance of Pendle Forest" by William Harrison Ainsworth is a historical novel published in 1849. Based on the true story of the Pendle witches executed in 1612, the tale weaves together the dark history of witchcraft accusations with the turbulent backdrop of Henry VIII's English Reformation. When Abbot John Paslew refuses a mysterious man's demand to baptize his infant daughter, he unleashes a curse that echoes across generations, binding together religious upheaval, demonic bargains, and the tragic fate of families accused of witchcraft. (This is an automatically generated summary.) Original publication data not identified Witches -- Fiction Lancashire (England) -- Fiction Gilbert, John, 1817-1897 https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/15493 56881 56881