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The Samlesbury Witches - guest post by Catherine Cavendish

  Today we have one of my good friends stopping by to take over blogging duties! Catherine Cavendish has written some amazing novels and novellas, and her latest, The Malan Witch, is no exception. She's a queen of the ghostly and trove of information about the supernatural.   The Samlesbury Witches My new novella – The Malan Witch – features two of the most evil witches you could ever (not) wish to encounter. They were burned for heresy and, in reality, they were not alone. Up and down the length and breadth of the country, in the 17 th century, witches were being tried, sentenced and executed – one way or the other. Most (if not all) were innocent of the crimes for which they were convicted. One infamous case concerns three women who happened to share a court date with an even mor4 famous group of Lancashire citizens. At the same Lancaster Assizes, on 19 th August 1612, that saw the conviction and hanging of the 10 Lancashire – Pendle – Witches, three women from the n