'Jennet Preston lies heavy upon me', cried Thomas Lister on his deathbed.We are told that his corpse bled when she touched it...and Jennet was convicted of witchcraft.Was there really a satanic coven on Pendle side? Or was Jennet framed by Lister's son? And were the other 'witches' actually caught up in a much broader and more disturbing pattern of religious persecution?Jonathan Lumby presents a remarkable series of new insights.By placing the events in their wider European context, he explains far more satisfactorily than ever before exactly why these disturbing events occurred.