Pendleside Hospice Witch Festival Samantha Giles, centre, and Pendleside staff and volunteers, get into the Witch Festival spirit
Emmerdale star Samantha Giles who plays Bernice Blackstock in the ITV soap drama
Pendleside Hospice aims to break a world record on September 17 by organising the largest gathering of people dressed as witches – hopefully 2022 to coincide with the year.
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Samantha Giles, centre, and Pendleside staff and volunteers, get into the Witch Festival spirit
Witches’ tour guide Simon Entwistle with Pendle Hill standing proud in the background
mmerdale star and children’s book author Samantha Giles is helping to spearhead the campaign along with Pendle Witches expert and tour guide Simon Entwistle. It is hoped the the event will raise around £100,000 towards maintaining the services Pendleside offers to people with life-limiting illnesses in the Burnley and Pendle area. Emmerdale star Samantha Giles was so fascinated by the Pendle Witches story that it inspired her to write her first children’s book ‘Rosemary And The Pendle Witches’ – and now she is backing Pendleside Hospice’s bid to break a world record. The Pendle Witches were a group of 10 people who were hanged in 1612 after being accused of murder and witchcraft. Mother-of-two Samantha, 50, who plays Bernice Blackstock in the ITV soap, believes the Pendle Witches were wrongly accused.
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