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For my Postgraduate Level project, I decided to complete a project based on the Medieval practice of Witchcraft.

I began with looking for a text to inspire my work. That was when I came across the book “The Daylight Gate”. It is a novel based on the Pendle Witch trials and although is a fictional book, it uses the names and identities of real people from that time.

It quickly became apparent to me that this book was full of amazing descriptions and imagery and this would be something I would love to illustrate. It also is able to really show how the lives of the people accused were completely robbed of them, even when they were innocent.

I set to work finding imagery from the book and drew an image of a witches table and the items that they might use. Also having a love for embroidery, influenced by the work of Sarah K Benning, I realised that this would be a prefect scene to embroider.

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"There is still a tradition, or a superstition, that a girl-child born in Pendle Forest should be twice baptised; once in church and once in a black pool at the foot of the hill. The hill will know her then. She will be its trophy and its sacrifice. She must make her peace with her birth right, whatever that means."

The Daylight Gate, Jeanette Winterson

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"The North is the dark place. It is not safe to be buried on the north side of the church and the North Door is the way of the Dead. The north of England is untamed. It can be subdued but it cannot be tamed. Lancashire is the wild part of the untamed."

The Daylight Gate, Jeanette Winterson

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Jeanette Winterson, The Daylight Gate

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I know i’m late to The Daylight Gate party, but there goes Jeanette Winterson, wrecking my soul again.

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‘Do you believe in God?’ ‘I don’t think I do.’ John Dee nodded. ‘Do you believe in the life to come?’ ‘I don’t think I do.’ ‘Yet you have seen many strange things with me, have you not? Apparitions, spectres, unaccountable sights not of human form?’ ‘I think these things are the magick of our own minds, not visitations from elsewhere.’ ‘Then our minds must be multitudes indeed.’ ‘I think we are worlds compressed into human form.'

Jeanette Winterson, The Daylight Gate

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Those who are born here are branded by Pendle. They share a common mark. There is still a tradition, or a superstition, that a girl-child born in Pendle Forest should be twice baptised; once in church and once in a black pool at the foot of the hill. The hill will know her then. She will be its trophy and its sacrifice. She must make her peace with her birth right, whatever that means.

Jeanette Winterson, The Daylight Gate

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