By Nicole Le Marie
Come Halloween and there will be plenty of people in Northampton ready to don their black hats and dress up as witches.
But a few centuries ago, few would have been so ready to identify themselves as such, because being labelled a witch could lead to a grisly fate.
It is now 400 years since The 1612 Northampton Witch Trials, which saw six accused of the “crime”, which was then punishable by death, and these were not the only “witches” to be hunted down in the county.
What’s been said…