Sentence examples for infamous witch from inspiring English sources

The Daylight Gate by Jeanette Winterson (Hammer, August): Inspired by the infamous witch trials in Pendle, Lancashire, in 1612.

Last September he and Lorri moved from New York to Salem, Massachusetts, where the infamous witch trials took place.

6. Witchfinder General  (1968) Friday 31 October, BBC2, 12.05am Vincent Price plays the evil and infamous witch hunter Matthew Hopkins in this Civil War-time horror.

Some Democrats went so far as to liken Cruz, who is a newcomer to the Senate, to a darkly divisive predecessor, Senator Joseph R. McCarthy, whose anti-Communist crusades devolved into infamous witch hunts.

In 1965, 85 girls passed out in two hours in a Blackburn school; in 2007, a Mexican girls' boarding school called in public health officials after 600 girls were suddenly unable to walk; last year Danvers, Massachusetts, originally known as Salem Village and home to the infamous witch trials, saw two dozen teenagers come down with uncontrollable hiccups.

While not everyone may have heard of it, Americans know Salem for its infamous Witch Trials from the 1600's, which made the town famous not just in the states, but worldwide.

Shepard has another genre-flavored creation coming — the April 20 debut of "Salem," the WGN America original scripted series about the infamous witches — and is among the group of directors that moves easily between film and TV; he also has directed about a half-dozen "Girls" episodes over the last several years.

Its Norman castle, for instance, was the sight of the infamous Pendle Witch trials in 1612, and the place where nine of the accused were executed.

The work, set in mid-19th-century Salem, Mass., is a sombre study in hereditary sin, based on the legend of a curse pronounced on Hawthorne's own family by a woman condemned to death during the infamous Salem witch trials.

Winterson, who had her first success with the novel Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, will try her hand at scaring her readers witless this summer with a story based on the infamous Pendle witch trials held at Lancaster castle in 1612.

After meeting with his close friend, famed director Elia Kazan, who had recently testified in front of the House Un-American Activities CoMillere, Miller traveled to Salem, Massachusetts, to research the infamous Salem Witch Trials of 1692.