Lancashire, UK. Saturday, August 18th 2012. Luci Teal near the memorial statue of Alice Nutter at the Big Witch Event Barley, in the borough of Pendle, in Lancashire, England. Official Guinness World Record attempt at “the largest gathering of people dressed as witches on Saturday 18th August, 2012 raising funds for Pendleside Hospice on the occasion of the 400th anniversary of the Pendle Witch Trials.
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3500 x 2333 px | 29.6 x 19.8 cm | 11.7 x 7.8 inches | 300dpiDate taken:
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Alice Nutter is back in Roughlee - as a statue. She was accused of being a Pendle Witch and hanged in Lancaster along with nine others from the area. The new statue, by David Palmer, shows how she was made to leave her village to go to Lancaster as a prisoner. The trials of the Pendle witches in 1612 are among the most famous witch trials in English history, and some of the best recorded of the 17th century. The twelve accused lived in the area around Pendle Hill in Lancashire, and were charged with the murders of ten people by the use of witchcraft. All but two were tried at Lancaster Assizes on 18–19 August 1612, along with the Samlesbury witches and others, in a series of trials that have become known as the Lancashire witch trials. One was tried at York Assizes on 27 July 1612, and another died in prison. Of the eleven who went to trial – nine women and two men – ten were found guilty and executed by hanging; one was found not guilty.