{"id":8180,"date":"2021-12-13T14:31:44","date_gmt":"2021-12-13T13:31:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.historyextra.com\/?p=194550"},"modified":"2021-12-13T17:26:08","modified_gmt":"2021-12-13T16:26:08","slug":"englands-last-witches","status":"publish","type":"rss_feed","link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbchistory\/rss_feed\/englands-last-witches\/","title":{"rendered":"England\u2019s last witches"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"rssexcerpt\"><\/p><p class=\"rssauthor\">By Kev Lochun\n                \t\t<\/p><p class=\"rssbyline\">Published: Monday, 13 December 2021 at 12:00 am<\/p><hr class=\"no-tts wp-block-separator\"\/><?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"UTF-8\" standalone=\"yes\"?>\n<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><body><p>In 1682, three women \u2013 Temperance Lloyd, Susannah Edwards and Mary Trembles \u2013 became the last in England to be hanged for the crime of witchcraft. John Callow speaks to Kev Lochun about how circumstance and ill-fortune led the so-called \u201cBideford witches\u201d to the gallows, and how history has rehabilitated them.<\/p>\n<!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('audio');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<audio class=\"&quot;wp-audio-shortcode&quot;\" id=\"&quot;audio-194550-1&quot;\" preload=\"&quot;none&quot;\" style=\"&quot;width:\" controls=\"&quot;controls&quot;\"><source type=\"&quot;audio\/mpeg&quot;\" src=\"&quot;https:\/\/media.immediate.co.uk\/volatile\/sites\/7\/2021\/12\/Callow_witches-42346fa.mp3?_=1&quot;\"\/><a href=\"&quot;https:\/\/media.immediate.co.uk\/volatile\/sites\/7\/2021\/12\/Callow_witches-42346fa.mp3&quot;\">https:\/\/media.immediate.co.uk\/volatile\/sites\/7\/2021\/12\/Callow_witches-42346fa.mp3<\/a><\/audio><p><strong>John Callow is the author of <em>The Last Witches of England: A Tragedy of Sorcery and Superstition<\/em> (Bloomsbury, 2021)<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul><li><a href=\"\/\/uk.bookshop.org\/books\/the-last-witches-of-england-a-tragedy-of-sorcery-and-superstition\/9781788314398&quot;\" target=\"&quot;_blank&quot;\" rel=\"&quot;nofollow noopener noreferrer\" noopener=\"\" noreferrer=\"\"><strong>Buy now on Bookshop.org<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/Last-Witches-England-Callow-John\/dp\/1788314395?tag=bbchistory045-21&amp;ascsubtag=historyextra-0&quot;\" target=\"&quot;_blank&quot;\" rel=\"&quot;sponsored&quot; noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Buy now on Amazon<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/\/www.waterstones.com\/book\/the-last-witches-of-england\/john-callow\/9781788314398&quot;\" target=\"&quot;_blank&quot;\" rel=\"&quot;nofollow noopener noreferrer\" noopener=\"\" noreferrer=\"\"><strong>Buy now on Waterstones<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul><p><a href=\"&quot;https:\/\/www.historyextra.com\/how-to-download-the-history-extra-podcast\/&quot;\">How to download the <em>HistoryExtra<\/em> podcast<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"&quot;https:\/\/media.acast.com\/historyextra\/howus-russianrelationsfracturedinthe1990s\/media.mp3&quot;\"><span class=\"&quot;standard-button__iefix&quot;\"><span class=\"&quot;standard-button__visible&quot;\"><span class=\"&quot;standard-button__inner&quot;\">Download as MP3<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/p><\/body><\/html>\n<hr class=\"no-tts wp-block-separator\"\/>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Kev Lochun Published: Monday, 13 December 2021 at 12:00 am In 1682, three women \u2013 Temperance Lloyd, Susannah Edwards and Mary Trembles \u2013 became the last in England to be hanged for the crime of witchcraft. 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