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This contemporaneous illustration depicts women being hanged for witchcraft in Newcastle upon Tyne sometime between 1650 and 1662. The city was one of several locations where witch hunts and executions were conducted in the 17th century.(Pictorial Press Ltd/Alamy Stock Photo)
A hawthorn tree in Lancashire’s borough of Pendle is regularly adorned with fruit and small trinkets left by passersby and visitors to Malkin Tower Farm who are aware of the property’s association with the area’s 1
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