 The Samlesbury witches were three women from the Lancashire village of Samlesbury – Jane Southworth , Jennet Bierley , and Ellen Bierley – accused by a 14 @-@ year @-@ old girl , Grace Sowerbutts , of practising witchcraft . Their trial at Lancaster Assizes in England on 19 August 1612 was one in a series of witch trials held there over two days. kwietniu 2015 w Samlesbury, a small village in Lancashire, England, the Samlesbury witches, a group of three women, were tried and executed for witchcraft.
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