The Lancashire Witches: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

The Lancashire Witches, credited to Harrison Ainsworth, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

About the work

The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:

LibriVox recording of The Lancashire Witches, by Harrison Ainsworth. Read by Andy Minter The Lancashire Witches is a highly fictionalised account of the activities of the notorious witches Demdike, Chattox and Alice Nutter who, together with others terrorised the district of Lancashire around Pendle Hill and the Forest of Bowland during the early seventeenth century. The witches named in the book were real enough, if not as witches then as people. Ainsworth, in his story brings in the dissolution of Whalley Abbey and the historic families of Assheton, Braddyll and Nowell and takes us through to the final trial and execution at Lancaster Castle in 1612. (Summary by Andy Minter)

Recording facts

• Recording title: The Lancashire Witches
• Author credits: Harrison Ainsworth
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 53
• Listed recording duration: 25:13:43

Catalogue topics

• witches
• lancashire

Opening tracks: first 24 of 53

1. 010 - Bk 0 Ch 1 The Beacon on Pendle Hill — 37:04
2. 020 - Bk 0 Ch 2 The Eruption — 16:29
3. 030 - Bk 0 Ch 3 Whalley Abbey — 29:49
4. 040 - Bk 0 Ch 4 The Malediction — 17:04
5. 050 - Bk 0 Ch 5 The Midnight Mass — 17:46
6. 060 - Bk 0 Ch 6 Teter et Fortis Carcer — 20:38
7. 070 - Bk 0 Ch 7 The Abbey Mill — 27:24
8. 080 - Bk 0 Ch 8 The Executioner — 13:28
9. 090 - Bk 0 Ch 9 Wiswall Hall — 10:25
10. 100 - Bk 0 Ch 10 The Holehouses — 10:47
11. 110 - Bk 1 Ch 1 The May Queen — 27:30
12. 120 - Bk 1 Ch 2 The Black Cat and the White Dove — 14:54
13. 130 - Bk 1 Ch 3 The Asshetons — 41:18
14. 140 - Bk 1 Ch 4 Alice Nutter — 32:37
15. 150 - Bk 1 Ch 5 Mother Chattox — 49:31
16. 160 - Bk 1 Ch 6 The Ordeal by Swimming — 29:37
17. 170 - Bk 1 Ch 7 The Ruined Conventual Church — 1:02:33
18. 180 - Bk 1 Ch 8 The Revelation — 29:42
19. 191 - Bk 1 Ch 9 Pt 1 The Two Portraits in the Banqueting Hall — 45:26
20. 192 - Bk 1 Ch 9 Pt 2 The Two Portraits in the Banqueting Hall — 47:12
21. 200 - Bk 1 Ch 10 The Nocturnal Meeting — 54:52
22. 210 - Bk 2 Ch 1 Flint — 31:36
23. 220 - Bk 2 Ch 2 Read Hall — 17:30
24. 230 - Bk 2 Ch 3 The Boggart's Glen — 18:35

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