Daughters of the Witching Hill (2010) (edit title/settings)

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• Elizabeth (Bess) Southerns: also known as Mother Demdike, a cunning woman and healer
• Elizabeth Device aka Liza: Daughter of Bess Southerns born with magical ability but then later rejects and avoids it.Alizon's mother.
• James Device aka Jamie: Son of Liza and John (firstborn), who has magical ability but with a mental impediment.
• Anne Whittle aka Chattox: Originally best friend to Bess, later an enemy, and feared 'witch'
• Alizon Device: Bess's granddaughter
• Katherine Hewitt: Add a description of this character.
• Jane Bulcock
• Tibb: Bess's familiar, appears as a young man
• Jennet Preston
• Jennet Device: Bastard daughter of Liza.
• Richard Baldwin
• Roger Nowell
• John Law
• Annie Redfearn: Daughter of Anne Whittle (Chattox)
• Alice Nutter: A kind gentlewoman who helps the family. Devoted Catholic.
• Nancy: Alizon's best friend.
• Betty Whittle: Anne Whittle's granddaughter
• Hargreaves
• Elsie
• Matthew Holden
• Anthony Holden
• Covell
• Robert Assheton
• Alice Gray
• Tom Redfearn
• Mistress Towneley
• Mouldheels
• John Device
• Meg Pearson
• Sarah Holden
• Henry Mitton
• John Bulcock
• Hartley
• William

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• “Yet he could never banish me and mine from these parts. This is our home. Ours. We will endure, woven into the land itself, it's weft and warp, like the very stones and the streams that cut across the moors.”

  Bess Southerns

• “Queen of Heaven, Queen of Elfhame - I held them both in my heart. A magpie landed in a meadow of lad's love and then that magpie became my grandmother, except she wasn't old or lame or blind. Full beautiful, her chestnut hair crowned in blossoms, she turned to me and called my name.”

  Alizon Device

• “Inside my bursting skull a rare light blazed. From down the forest path I saw a wreath of roses, a garland of green, a diadem of stars.”

  Alizon Device

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• she pushed out the afterbirth, which I cast straightaway into the fire so that the flames consumed every part of it. An evil soul could use the afterbirth for blackest magic.

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Setting & Locations edit see section history

• Malkin Tower: Home of Bess Southerns and her family
• Lancashire, England
• Pendle Forest
• Colne Field
• Bull Hole Farm
• Read Hall
• Clitheroe
• West Close
• New Church
• Heaven
• Roughlee Hall
• Halifax
• Goldshaw

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Themes & Symbolism edit see section history

• Religious freedom: Describe this theme.
• Religious paranoia
• Justice and injustice

Authors & Contributors edit see section history

1. Mary Sharratt (Author)

First Edition edit see section history

Classification edit see section history

• Library of Congress: PS3569.H3449 D38 2010
• Dewey: 813.54

Subjects edit see section history

• Books › Literature & Fiction › Genre Fiction › Historical

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