Writer and researcher specialising in the history and practice of magic
People who practised magic often kept notebooks. Based on authentic records, this is an imagining of a 17th century spell book that might have been written by Pendle witch Jennet Device.
First published in 1680, A Discovery of the Impostures of Witches and Astrologers by John Brinley is an important example and contemporary account of the establishment’s ideas, beliefs and debate surrounding the practices of witchcraft, magic and divination that lay behind the approved persecution of witches and other practitioners.
Beltane 2015
