Sabine Baring-Gould, the king of Devon folklorists, retells the sad story of the Bideford Witches, three poor women who were executed at Exeter in 1682 for their alleged maleficia. This very rare volume also contains information about the Devonshire Cunning Folk, the Sampford Ghost and the bizarre seer of Exeter, Joanna Southcott. A remarkable collection.
Sabine Baring-Gould of Lew Trenchard in Devon, England, was an Anglican priest, hagiographer, antiquarian, novelist, folk song collector and eclectic scholar. His bibliography consists of more than 1,240 publications, though this list continues to grow. His family home, the manor house of Lew Trenchard, near Okehampton, Devon, has been preserved as he had it rebuilt and is now a hotel. He is remembered particularly as a writer of hymns, the best-known being "Onward, Christian Soldiers", "Sing Lullaby", and "Now the Day Is Over". He also translated the carol "Gabriel's Message" from the Basque language to English.
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