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- Simon Armitage presents the extraordinary story of the most disturbing witch trial in British history and the key role played in it by one nine-year-old girl. Jennet Device, a beggar-girl from Pendle in Lancashire, was the star witness in the trial in 1612 of her own mother, her brother, her sister and many of her neighbours and, thanks to her chilling testimony, they were all hanged. In 'The Pendle Witch Child' poet Simon Armitage explores the lethal power and influence of one child's words - a story of fear, magic and demonic pacts retold partly with vivid and innovative hand-drawn animation. He discovers how Jennet's appearance in the witness box cast its shadow way beyond Lancashire, impressing lawyers, politicians, clerics and even the King himself and setting a dark precedent for child testimony in witch trials as far away as America. Finally, in a dramatic twist to the tale, he reveals how, 22 years after the original trial, Jennet's own words were very nearly the death of her - when she herself was put on trial, accused of being a witch by a 10-year-old boy. With the help of historians Malcolm Gaskill, Diane Purkiss and Ronald Hutton, Simon Armitage attempts to get inside Jennet's head and understand how the illegitimate and illiterate youngest child of a family of beggars could become both pawn and player in a much bigger story of 17th century religion, power, law, science and the monarchy. What made Jennet speak out so everyone she knew would die? And how did the courts decide to admit her evidence, and allow her example to create a precedent for accepting the testimony of other child witnesses who wanted to send their neighbours to the gallows? Although the events in this film may date back four hundred years, its issues resonate today as much as ever - when to believe our children, how the police and the court system should handle child witnesses and above all how, in times of crisis, fear of evil can easily lead us to behave in ways which may corrode the very values that we most wish to protect.
- On the 20th of April, 2014, five student filmmakers went on a trip to the forest near Pendle Hill in order to shoot a documentary about the Pendle Witches, who supposedly lived in the area over four hundred years ago. They never returned - Now, 5 years later, their footage has finally been recovered. Disclaimer: May not be suitable for younger viewers due to strong language. Viewer discretion is advised.
- 2002–20198.0 (12)TV EpisodeThe Most Haunted team investigate Pendle Hill in Lancashire. They visit Clitheroe Castle, Church Brow, and the Trinity Youth Centre for this installment.
- 2002–20198.1 (16)TV EpisodeThe Most Haunted team investigate Pendle Hill in Lancashire. They investigate Lower Well Head Farm, Bull Hole Farm, and Tynedale Farm.
- 2002–20196.4 (11)TV EpisodeThe Most Haunted team investigate Pendle Hill in Lancashire. They investigate Waddow Hall.
- Michaela visits The Lion & Swan coaching inn in Cheshire, which dates as far back as 1496. Then it's off to Lancashire, where Michaela investigates the Pendle Hill Witch Trials of 1612, when nine women were accused of meeting on the hill to use sorcery to kill 17 local men.