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The daylight gate /

Alice Nutter fights for justice when a group of Pendle women are accused of witchcraft during the reign of England's James I, when being Catholic is considered an act of treason and the Latin High Mass is comparable to the satanic Black Mass. Good Friday, 1612. Pendle Hill, Lancashire. A myste...

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Main Author:	Winterson, Jeanette, 1959- (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Grove Press, [2013]
Subjects:	Witchcraft > England > Pendle > History > 17th century > Fiction. Catholics > England > Pendle > 17th century > Fiction. Witches > England > Pendle > 17th century > Fiction. Hysteria (Social psychology) > Fiction. Lancashire (England) > History > 17th century > Fiction. Great Britain > History > James I, 1603-1625 > Fiction. Hystérie (Psychologie sociale) > Romans, nouvelles, etc. Lancashire (Angleterre) > Histoire > 17e siècle > Romans, nouvelles, etc. Grande-Bretagne > Histoire > 1603-1625 (Jacques Ier) > Romans, nouvelles, etc. Catholics Hysteria (Social psychology) Witchcraft Witches England > Lancashire England > Pendle Great Britain 1600-1699 Fictional Work Witch fiction Novels History Historical fiction Fiction Historical fiction. Witch fiction. Novels. Romans.

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