"Here is foam from a mad dog's lips, gather'd beneath the moon's eclipse, ashes of a shroud consumed, and with deadly vapor fumed. These within the mess I cast-stir the caldron-stir it fast " Historical novelist William Harrison Ainsworth took the court records of the 1612 Pendle witch trials and turned them into a "triple decker" novel, The Lancashire Witches, centered around the claims of necromancy allegedly committed...
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