Edmund Robinson

Not to be confused with Edmond Robinson.

Edmund Robinson was an English ten-year-old boy from Wheatley Lane, Lancashire, who sparked a witch-hunt.

His story was the inspiration for the 1634 play The Late Lancashire Witches.[1]

References

Notes

  1. Devil Dogs, p.26, May 2011, BBC History Magazine


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