' Jennet Preston lies heavy upon me' cried Thomas Lister on his deathbed We are told that his corpse bled when she touched itand Jennet was convicted of witchcraft Was there really a satanic coven on Pendle side? Or was Jennet framed by Lister's son? & were the other 'witches' actually caught up in a much broader & more disturbing pattern of religious persecution? Jonathan Lumby presents a remarkable series of new insights By placing the events in their wider European context he explains far more satisfactorily than ever before exactly why these disturbing events occurred