The Oxford Bookworms Library: Stage 1: 400 Headwords: The Witches of Pendle

by TriciaHedge (Contributor), JenniferBasset (Contributor), RowenaAkinyemi (Author)

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  Paperback
  2000

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  Witches are dangerous. They can kill you with a look, or a word. They can send their friend the Devil after you in the shape of a dog or a cat. They can make a clay picture of you, then break it ...and a few weeks later you are dead. Today, of course, most people don't believe in witches. But in 1612 everybody was afraid of them. Young Jennet Device in Lancashire knew a lot about them because she lived with the Witches of Pendle. They were her family...

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  Paperback
  1994

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  Part of a series of elementary readers which offers students the opportunity to extend their reading and appreciation of the English language, this reader at Stage 1 contains 400 headwords. It is a tale of fear and superstition in 17th-century Lancashire.