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The Lancashire Witches

by William Harrison Ainsworth

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  1. 1Note
  2. 2Dedication
  3. 3Introduction — The Last Abbot of Whalley
  4. 4Chapter II — The Eruption
  5. 5Chapter III — Whalley Abbey
  6. 6Chapter IV — The Malediction
  7. 7Chapter V — The Midnight Mass
  8. 8Chapter VI — Teter et Fortis Carcer
  9. 9Chapter VII — The Abbey Mill
  10. 10Chapter VIII — The Executioner
  11. 11Chapter IX — Wiswall Hall
  12. 12Chapter X — The Holehouses
  13. 13Book the First — Alizon Device
  14. 14Chapter II — The Black Cat and the White Dove
  15. 15Chapter III — The Asshetons
  16. 16Chapter IV — Alice Nutter
  17. 17Chapter V — Mother Chattox
  18. 18Chapter VI — The Ordeal by Swimming
  19. 19Chapter VII — The Ruined Conventual Church
  20. 20Chapter VIII — The Revelation
  21. 21Chapter IX — The Two Portraits in the Banqueting-Hall
  22. 22Chapter X — The Nocturnal Meeting
  23. 23Book the Second — Pendle Forest
  24. 24Chapter II — Read Hall
  25. 25Chapter III — The Boggart’s Glen
  26. 26Chapter IV — The Reeve of the Forest
  27. 27Chapter V — Bess’s o’ th’ Booth
  28. 28Chapter VI — The Temptation
  29. 29Chapter VII — The Perambulation of the Boundaries
  30. 30Chapter VIII — Rough Lee
  31. 31Chapter IX — How Rough Lee was defended by Nicholas
  32. 32Chapter X — Roger Nowell and his Double
  33. 33Chapter XI — Mother Demdike
  34. 34Chapter XII — The Mysteries of Malkin Tower
  35. 35Chapter XIII — The Two Familiars
  36. 36Chapter XIV — How Rough Lee was again Besieged
  37. 37Chapter XV — The Phantom Monk
  38. 38Chapter XVI — One O’Clock!
  39. 39Chapter XVII — How the Beacon Fire was Extinguished
  40. 40Book the Third — Hoghton Tower
  41. 41Chapter II — The Penitent’s Retreat
  42. 42Chapter III — Middleton Hall
  43. 43Chapter IV — The Gorge of Cliviger
  44. 44Chapter V — The End of Malkin Tower
  45. 45Chapter VI — Hoghton Tower
  46. 46Chapter VII — The Royal Declaration concerning Lawful Sports on the…
  47. 47Chapter VIII — How King James Hunted the Hart and the Wild-Boar in…
  48. 48Chapter IX — The Banquet
  49. 49Chapter X — Evening Entertainments
  50. 50Chapter XI — Fatality
  51. 51Chapter XII — The Last Hour
  52. 52Chapter XIII — The Masque of Death
  53. 53Chapter XIV — “One Grave”
  54. 54Chapter XV — Lancaster Castle

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