cole-pit

Updated: May 7, 2025

The exorcist now turned his skill upon a young apprenticed musician of Nottingham. According to Darrel's story of the affair, William Somers had nine years before met an old woman who had threatened him. Again, more than a year before Darrel came to Nottingham, Somers had had two encounters with a strange woman "at a deep cole-pit, hard by the way-side."

Wallace Notestein - A History of Witchcraft in England from 1558 to 1718