Dukes, LancasterFour hundred years ago this August, 10 men and women were hanged on Lancaster Moor, the culmination of one of England's biggest witch trials. Twenty had been accused (16 among them women): eight were acquitted, one was sentenced to the pillory and one, Elizabeth Southerns, known as Demdike, died in prison before the trial.Wisely (given present theatre underfunding), Richard Shannon does not attem…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:03PM on June 9, 2012