Hello listeners. This weeks tune is about the Pendle Hill witch trials, which I heard about on the ABC from the author Jeanette Winterson who just wrote a book about them called "The Daylight Gate", which she read from and talked about and I dug, so I looked up more info and then wrote a song about it. Maleficium means the causing of harm by magic, and basically the story revolves around a peddler having a stroke, blaming witchcraft and then the whole thing spiralling into madness and resulting in 9 people being hung, one dying in prison, the use of a nine year old girl to betray her own family and some other nasty stuff. If you're interested then Google it and read more, fascinating stuff.
Hope you like it anyways & thanks for your time.
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