The Terrible Crimes and False Wonders of Mary Bateman, the Witch of Yorkshire
taradiddle ofwitchcraftand persecution are woven throughout the darkest history of Great Britain . Over century of geezerhood , thousandsof char were charge of black art , consort with the deuce , shape - unfirm , causing illness , and worse . Some of the accused were clean-handed of the crimes ascribe to them , yet others , of course , were not . One not - so - unimpeachable fair sex was Mary Bateman , the Yorkshire Witch , whose vocation of execution and pseudo was stop at the end of a rope ....