20% rabatt med Storytel
Du handlar alltid fysiska böcker till specialpriser om du har eller startar ett abonnemang.
Frakt från 0 kr
Snabb leverans med CityMail, Early Bird, Instabox, Budbee, PostNord eller DSV. Du ser alla fraktalternativ och priser i kassan.
Fria returer
Lämna tillbaka din bok kostnadsfritt med 14 dagars ångerrätt.
20% rabatt med Storytel
Du handlar alltid fysiska böcker till specialpriser om du har eller startar ett abonnemang.
Frakt från 0 kr
Snabb leverans med CityMail, Early Bird, Instabox, Budbee, PostNord eller DSV. Du ser alla fraktalternativ och priser i kassan.
Fria returer
Lämna tillbaka din bok kostnadsfritt med 14 dagars ångerrätt.
20% rabatt med Storytel
Du handlar alltid fysiska böcker till specialpriser om du har eller startar ett abonnemang.
Frakt från 0 kr
Snabb leverans med CityMail, Early Bird, Instabox, Budbee, PostNord eller DSV. Du ser alla fraktalternativ och priser i kassan.
Fria returer
Lämna tillbaka din bok kostnadsfritt med 14 dagars ångerrätt.
549 kr
I lager, skickas inom 4 till 5 vardagar
20% rabatt med Storytel
Du handlar alltid fysiska böcker till specialpriser om du har eller startar ett abonnemang.
Frakt från 0 kr
Snabb leverans med CityMail, Early Bird, Instabox, Budbee, PostNord eller DSV. Du ser alla fraktalternativ och priser i kassan.
Fria returer
Lämna tillbaka din bok kostnadsfritt med 14 dagars ångerrätt.
549 kr
I lager, skickas inom 4 till 5 vardagar
20% rabatt med Storytel
Du handlar alltid fysiska böcker till specialpriser om du har eller startar ett abonnemang.
Frakt från 0 kr
Snabb leverans med CityMail, Early Bird, Instabox, Budbee, PostNord eller DSV. Du ser alla fraktalternativ och priser i kassan.
Fria returer
Lämna tillbaka din bok kostnadsfritt med 14 dagars ångerrätt.
Utforska miljontals ljud- och e-böcker och upptäck stories i alla format. Med ett abonnemang får du 20% rabatt på fysiska böcker!
"Fascinating and vivid." New Statesman
"Thoroughly researched." The Spectator
"Intriguing." BBC History Magazine
"Vividly told." BBC History Revealed
"A timely warning against persecution." Morning Star
"Astute and thoughtful." History Today
"An important work." All About History
"Well-researched." The Tablet
On the morning of Thursday 29 June 1682, a magpie came rasping, rapping and tapping at the window of a prosperous Devon merchant. Frightened by its appearance, his servants and members of his family had, within a matter of hours, convinced themselves that the bird was an emissary of the devil sent by witches to destroy the fabric of their lives. As the result of these allegations, three women of Bideford came to be forever defined as witches. A Secretary of State brushed aside their case and condemned them to the gallows; to hang as the last group of women to be executed in England for the crime. Yet, the hatred of their neighbours endured. For Bideford, it was said, was a place of witches.
Though ‘pretty much worn away’ the belief in witchcraft still lingered on for more than a century after their deaths. In turn, ignored, reviled, and extinguished but never more than half-forgotten, it seems that the memory of these three women - and of their deeds and sufferings, both real and imagined – was transformed from canker to regret, and from regret into celebration in our own age. Indeed, their example was cited during the final Parliamentary debates, in 1951, that saw the last of the witchcraft acts repealed, and their names were chanted, as both inspiration and incantation, by the women beyond the wire at Greenham Common.
In this book, John Callow explores this remarkable reversal of fate, and the remarkable tale of the Bideford Witches.
Colonel Nick Lipscombe
Elizabeth Drayson
Max Adams
Padraig Lenihan
Ross Allen
Robert Forczyk
Juliet Nicolson
John Julius Norwich
Stephen Bull
Alistair Moffat
David Starkey
A.W. Boardman
David R. Ross
Richard English
Susan J. Vincent
Hemant Singh Katoch
Mark Edmonds
Alex Christofi
Paul Kenyon
Stephen Turnbull
Dalal Mawad
Andrea Salimbeti, Raffaele D’Amato
Sarah Easter Collins
Frida Skybäck
Liz Moore
Colleen Hoover
Kristin Fägerskjöld
Armando Lucas Correa
Sharon Bolton
Ruth Lillegraven
Santa Montefiore
Kelly Rimmer
Martha Hall Kelly
Svenja O'Donnell
Nathan Harris
Holly Jackson
Louise Boije af Gennäs
Tina Norin
Kristin Fägerskjöld
Pernilla Lindroos
Anna Lönnqvist
Jessie Burton
Malin Nordström
Marc Levy
Emma Donoghue
Snezana Lindskog, Andie Lindskog
Tony Samuelsson
Andrev Walden
Tina Harnesk
Kathrine Nedrejord
Anthony Doerr
Marieke Lucas Rijneveld
Lauren Groff
Claire Messud
Claire Lynch
Sebastian Barry
Ray Celestin
Simon Stranger
Alice Munro
Linda Boström Knausgård
Marit Kapla
Ulf Stark
Sarah Easter Collins
Liz Moore
Ursula Scavenius
Colleen Hoover
Michel Jean
