The Horrific Discovery of a Real-Life Witch: Elizabeth Sawyer, fact and fiction

1621 was a very bad year for Elizabeth Sawyer. She was a poor widow, living in Edmonton, England, but in that year, she was tried, convicted, and executed as a witch. During her imprisonment, an opportunistic young witch chronicler, Henry Goodcole, came to interview her; his interview survives to the present day, in the form of a pamphlet, which he enti…