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A Trial of Witches

A Seventeenth-Century Witchcraft Prosecution

by Gilbert Geis and Ivan Bunn

A detailed reconstruction of the 1662 trial of Amy Denny and Rose Cullender at Bury St Edmunds before Sir Matthew Hale. The authors examine the accusers, the evidence and the role of Thomas Browne, and follow the trial's later influence on witchcraft cases.

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