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Jan 09, 2019 nelson mandela rowena akinyemi akinyemi, rowena summary. One of many good looking witches, rowena is always happy to look after the younger members of her family. He subsequently identified 19 witches and they were sent to trial in 1634, including jenet davies, a witness at the 1612 trial, and the daughterinlaw of alice nutter one of the previous pendle witches. Dec 07, 2016 prisoners were brought to the castle of lancaster, where the witches of samlesbury and pendle hill were judged in the summer of 1612.
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