This is a drawing that I produced based on one of the witches that was executed in the Pendle Witch trials. Her name is Elizabeth Device and she was the head of the Device family who were all executed.
The reason I wanted to put this on my research blog is because I want to see if there is any way that I can use this in my final piece. I feel that there could possibly be a way to use this as an embroidery piece.
I thought that I could embroider this face onto a piece of fabric and then stitch that onto the poppet doll I have already made. A poppet doll is something the witches would have used at this time to harm and kill people that they had bad feelings toward. But the people executing the witches would not have used this method whatsoever, it was completely out of the question. But by juxtaposing this by using a witches method of punishment and punishing a witch with a method that they would normally never use could be an interesting idea.