A hundred years ago, churchmen in Lancashire set upon one another - one sold his soul to the devil, and used his unfathomable power to send his rival to the gallows. The man he condemned died cursing him and his children… and those children became "The Lancashire Witches". Mother Demdike - the crone who was the child of the man who sold his soul to the devil - has become an arcane monster, and she and her vile family are challenged only by their witchly rivals, Mother Chattox and Alice Nutter…