THE WITCHES OF PENDLE, Stage 1 {in England inthe 1600s many people believed in witches. A witch could be an old woman, of a young woman — sometimes even a man or a boy. But they were usually ‘women, and everybody was very afaid of them. Because & witch could kill you~ juse with a curse 4m 1612, near Pendle Hill im Lancashitey lived a girl called Jennet Device. She was nine years old then, poor, thin, and hungry. She had no shoes, no coat, and sometimes nothing ‘0 eat for days, Life was nor easy for Jonnet Device And her grandmother, Old Demdike, was a witch. Her mother Elizabeth was a witch, and her sister Alizon, Even her poor stupid brother James was a witch .. Or that is what he villagers believed. This is Jennet’s story of her Family, Ie begins in 1634, when Jeonet isa prisoner in Lancaster Castle Rowena Akinyemi is British, and after many years in Africa, she now lives and works in Cambridge. 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Rates, Grab Greve, Rath Rondel, gla Nok Frank Sargesom Raymond Carer Doroy Sayers, Margery lg Si Artur Conon Doyle Parcs Hight) THE WITCHES OF PENDLE by Rowena Akinyemi _~ OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESSOsfon! Univers Pres. ‘Walton Stet, Oxford OX2 6D? 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The twenty women in the prison are dirty, hungry and cold. There are no beds or chairs and so they sleep on the cold floor. There are no windows, so itis always dark. The women want to get out of the prison; they want to go home. Sometimes the guards open the big, old door and put some bread and water on the floor. Then they close the door again. My name is Jennet Device, and [ am one of the twenty women in prison. Day after day, I sit on the cold floor and wait. I want co feel warm again; I want to see the sky again, and Pendle Hill, the beautiful hill near my home But | am inthe dark prison of Lancaster Castle, and I sit on the cold floor and wait. ‘One day, something happens. The guards open the big, old door. *Jennet Device!” a guard calls. ‘Come here at once, witch! Somebody wants to see you.” I get up slowly because I’m very cold and I walk across the dark room to the door. Perhaps it’s someone from Read Hall! Perhaps I’m going home! ‘Jennet Device, be quick!” the guard calls again. Someone is standing at the door with the guard. ‘Jennet,’ he says quietly.