The Witches of Warboys: An Extraordinary Story of Sorcery, Sadism and Satanic Possession in Elizabethan England

by Philip C. Almond

On a foggy November day in 1589, when one of the five daughters of Robert and Elizabeth Throckmorton suddenly fell sick, no one in the small English village of Warboys could have predicted the terrifying events that would follow. Or envisaged that four years later, in April 1593, the Throckmortons' neighbours Alice, Agnes and John Samuel, would be dragged before a country court on charges of sorcery, enchantment and murder. There is no more dramatic...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1845115082
• ISBN13: 9781845115081
• Release Date: December 2007
• Publisher: I. B. Tauris & Company
• Length: 222 Pages
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 8.7" x 5.9"