Nan Hardwicke — Witch or Hare? The Folklore of Cleveland

There are very few Cleveland villages which, at one time or another, one of the inhabitants had not been stigmatised as a witch. More often than not, it was some lonely old woman, past her childbearing age, probably widowed but more than likely without any degree of patriarchal protection.

The most celebrated of these w ...

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