Suzi Feay

Hysterical outbursts: Bewitched, by Jill Dawson, reviewed

What possessed the young Throckmorton girls in 1589 to accuse an old woman of witchcraft in the village of Warboys?

Dawson’s novel colours in the crude woodcuts of the time with passionate emotions. Credit: Alamy

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