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icymist

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2. Well, I found a BBC article on the same find:

Mon Dec 12, 2011, 10:37 PM

Dec 2011

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Historians are now speculating that the well-preserved cottage could have belonged to one of the Pendle witches.

The building contained a sealed room, with the bones of a cat bricked into the wall.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-lancashire-16066680

There is no hard evidence that the cat was entombed alive aside from the folklore of the place and the history of what the people accused of witchcraft on Pendle Hill, where the ruins are located, are rumored to have done.

On edit I found a lot about the Pendle Witches themselves:
http://www.pendlewitches.co.uk/

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'Witch's Cottage' And Mummified Cat Unearthed [View all] icymist Dec 2011 OP

I unearthed a couple of mummified cats in my barn. LWolf Dec 2011 #1

Well, I found a BBC article on the same find: icymist Dec 2011 #2

I'm going to come back to read LWolf Dec 2011 #5

You may also want to check out the Wiki on the Pendle witches. icymist Dec 2011 #6

thank you for that link--I remember reading about them years ago niyad Dec 2011 #3

I noticed the article said they found a cooking range Tyrs WolfDaemon Dec 2011 #4