Pendle Hill, the hill of the 12 witches

There are unique scenarios, as satin by a dimension of the strange, the telluric and even the spiritual. Pendle Hill is one of those places where the incredible natural beauty interweave a past of legend where tragedy and witchcraft , form a unique mantle for all curious and lover of legends.

We are in Lancashire, England, near the cities of Burnley and Nelson.In this account of the British black history we have to ascend a striking hill, a really isolated hill that rises 557 meters above sea level.

Pendle Hill is known above all for being the place where twelve women were accused of witchcraft in the 17th century.We are sure that this story will seem interesting to you.

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The isolated community of Pendle Hill

The history of the 12 witch trials Pendle Hill is still remembered today as the rancid wind that sometimes accompanies part of our history.It is those corners of the past where the supers ticion, fear and fanaticism so difficult to understand.

Pendle Hill, the hill of the 12 witches

At this time, there was a small town that made life in this isolated cedar, too isolated perhaps from the world, and what was considered civilized.The city of Lancashire saw Pendle Hill as a "Hole" where the wild, violence and sex, roamed with total debauchery, like the stormy clouds that everyone fears, and that lodges on top of a mountain.

The surrounding villages the hill of Pendle Hill saw those people with dread, as pagan savages who lived in a separate dimension, with their rules and their laws. The women of Pendle Hill, as you can imagine, had their own wisdom , the wisdom of nature, of the cycles of the moon, of the healing arts through plants, fruits, insect venom...

All that many, associated with the bad arts of witchcraft, when in reality, it was nothing more than the wisdom of natural balance, flowers and prayers to ancestral goddesses...

Pendle Hill, the hill of the 12 witches

It was also thought of that little town housed in the cedar of Pendle, who practiced dark masses and worshiped the Devil.We are in an era where everything that was different, was associated with the evil.The perverse.

Until a At the time when the neighbors of the city began to denounce that the milk of the cows was sour, that the milk of the women who nursed their children was poisoned, that the flowers were born with the stems upside down, that the cattle died without known causes and that the population got sick from evil ailments. And who were to blame? Indeed, the people of Pendle Hill, and specifically women.

Pendle Hill, the hill of the 12 witches

When the authorities finally dared to ascend the hill, they went to a house, where, according to the texts of the time, they found a group of women doing clay effigies with human hair and teeth .Result? You can imagine it.A trial was held to prosecute those ladies as "maleficium" (that is, to cause other people's damage through witchcraft), and of those 12 women, 11 of them were found guilty and , consequently, hanging on the gallows.

I condemn them not only for witches, but for practicing even cannibalism and infanticide. That process was well known throughout England., hence today, many see with authentic panic that quiet hill of Pendle Hill, and even take "tours" to remember everything that happened there.

Pendle Hill, the hill of the 12 witches

There are currently no witnesses who claim to perceive in this area great suffering and a rage so intense, it's like going through a dark portal where many have experiencing even physical aggressions, blows or bites.Terrible, there is no doubt.

Tell us now...Would you like to visit this scenario? Is there a story similar to Pendle Hill in your country? If you liked this article, don't miss 8 traits that would blame you for witchcraft in the past.

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