The Lancashire Witches by William Harrison Ainsworth, Fiction, Horror, Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, Legends & Mythology

The man he condemned died cursing him and his children . . . and those children became The Lancashire Witches. Mother Demdike -- the crone who was the child of the man who sold his soul to the devil -- has become an arcane monster, and she and her vile family are challenged only by their witchly rivals, Mother Chattox and Alice Nutter. . . .