Description
In 1711, in County Antrim, eight women were placed on trial accused of orchestrating the demonic possession of young Mary Dunbar, and the haunting and supernatural murder of a local clergyman’s wife. Mary Dunbar was once the star witness on this trial, and the ladies were, by the factors of the time, believable witches – they smoked, they drank, they only didn’t look right. With echoes of Arthur Miller’s ‘The Crucible’, and in truth Mary Dunbar repeated a few of the reports from the Salem Wtich-trials word for word in court, it is a story of murder, of hysteria, and of how the ‘witch craze’ that claimed over 400,000 lives in Europe played out on Irish shores.
