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[takersbabe]

Originally Posted by Kiki

I too have fascinations with the Pendle Witches and just believe them to have been clever, wise women who would of known how to make herb potions and i dont want to belive the evil sides if there was any?

exactly janet it was evil what happened to them

[wayneyboy1942]

I was taken round Lancaster Castle and was locked inside the dungeons and I would confess to anything after that!!!!!!
As for traceing my family tree NO THANKS!!!!!! I'm bound to be re-lated to Richard Turpin or that ilck rather than royalty so I'll leave well alone!!!

[takersbabe]

went on a tour round lancaster castle and you can feel the energy and presences there its really spooky.

my family tree doesnt interest me all that much like i say most of them are a**es i have the one i need

[Kiki]

Originally Posted by takersbabe

went on a tour round lancaster castle and you can feel the energy and presences there its really spooky.

my family tree doesnt interest me all that much like i say most of them are a**es i have the one i need

I have been on a tour of Skipton Castle a few years ago, it was really interesting and I learnt more than i had when i was younger, as there are things that were not talked about when i was at school! An example was that the Lord of the Manor and Lady,s would often have bed warmers, usually women, they didnt have efficient hot water bottles in Medieval times!
Any way !this practice often resulted in illegitimate children being born, with the Lord probably intoxicated ,mistaking the bed warmer for the wife! Lol!

[mick]

try this site
just how bad were your family
click the link then put your surname in its fun to read what they got upto
but some of the sentances were very bad be warned !!
http://www.oldbaileyonline.org/search/name/

[mick]

As for Lancaster castle when you go on a tour you only get shown the top cells these days you are not allowed down in the deep witches dungeons .
you have to get special permission to go down there now.
i have been down once and beleve me you would not want to go again they go down so for that when the river lune is up it floods the cells there are rings in the floor where the so called witches where shackeled to
its very slippy and there is slime on the steps .
the reason you are not allowed down there is a American once went down and slipped (very easy to do) and he sued the castle so they shut them off to the public which is a shame really.

[takersbabe]

hahahaha thats cool

[Kiki]

Originally Posted by mick

try this site
just how bad were your family
click the link then put your surname in its fun to read what they got upto
but some of the sentances were very bad be warned !!
http://www.oldbaileyonline.org/search/name/

I couldnt go on this one its too dire! peoplewere hung for stealing aloaf!

[WillowTheWhisp]

If you read the list of crimes and punishments in Lancaster castle you'll see they were hung or deported for what seem very trivial offences these days. It's a shame you can't go right down in those dungeons any more but it's still well-worth a visit.

Regarding the Lancashire witches I don't think those particular women were very wise but a lot of people accused of witchcraft were often just elderly women who were skilled in herbal remedies etc and people went to them for cures for their ailments. Then if the cures didn't work they turned on them and accused them of casting spells.

"Mist over Pendle" is a fictionalised account of a basically true story. "The Lancashire Witches" by Harrison Ainsworth is another, but slightly heavier going.

I love family history and used to work in the LDS Family History centre at Rawtenstall.

[Col.Kurtz]

Don't think I'll bother, too many other 'Smiths' around lol.

[jaseyboy]

wahey all my family were murderers, so watch out!!!!

[Kiki]

Demdike,s Cottage from Robert Neil,s" Mist over Pendle"novel
Here was a windy moorland with the thin road crossing it, straight and stark. It stood alone far from the life of the forest, no out buildings ringed it. No animals, not a cow not a sheep not even a chicken seemed to belong to it. Its only sign of life was a wisp of smoke flattening into the wind from its single chimney. It stood alone and desolate, an outcast from the dwellings of men. It was decayed, ramshackle ,desperate, there were holes in the thatch and cracks in the walls .The boundary fence was torn into crazy gaps. But for the the smoke she would of supposed the place derelict and abandoned these twenty years. If this was a human habitation it surely ought not to be!
A hare sprang from nowhere!
Thats what our country folk would call a malkin, and here we are the Malkin Tower- ------Just found this bit that i copied out to try and imagine,an idea for a painting!

[Brian]

Very atmospheric KiKi, publish your painting on here when finished?

Brian:Mysteriou

[Kiki]

Thanks Brian will do! Its just finding time at the moment? But will read the book again as its just turned up?