Pendle Witch Child

Poet Simon Armitage tells the story of Jennet Device, a nine-year-old girl whose testimony at one of Britain's most notorious witch trials resulted in many of her relatives and neighbours being hanged in Lancashire in 1612. He learns how the impact of her evidence set a precedent for using children as witnesses at similar trials, and tries to discover why Jennet chose to bring about the demise of the people to whom she was closest