![]() Just over three centuries saw witch trials held in England but fewer than 500 people were executed for this crime. The legend of the Pendle witches is the most notorious witch trial of the 17th century. A familiar is the surest sign of a witch.”’ It appears to her when she needs it to do her bidding. An instrument, if you will, to enlarge his kingdom…they can appear as anything: an animal, a child. “Then I will direct you to the book of Leviticus. ‘“Fleetwood have you knowledge of familiar spirits?” I shook my head. Time is running out, and both their lives are at stake. Soon the two women’s lives will become inextricably bound together as the legendary trial at Lancaster approaches, and Fleetwood’s stomach continues to grow. But is there more to Alice than meets the eye? ![]() Alice promises to help her give birth to a healthy baby, and to prove the physician wrong.Īs Alice is drawn into the witchcraft accusations that are sweeping the North-West, Fleetwood risks everything by trying to help her. ![]() Then she crosses paths by chance with Alice Gray, a young midwife. When Fleetwood finds a letter she isn’t supposed to read from the doctor who delivered her third stillbirth, she is dealt the crushing blow that she will not survive another pregnancy. But as the mistress at Gawthorpe Hall, she still has no living child, and her husband Richard is anxious for an heir. ![]() Fleetwood Shuttleworth is 17 years old, married, and pregnant for the fourth time. ![]()
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