Nice one burnley0 , read a little about the Pendle witch trials and listened to a documentary on BBC radio 4 extra that was very informative and also very sad thanks for letting everyone know about the sculpture , very sad tale but at least theres a rememberance to future generations of the local history and to what happened . By the way gooosehunter the dunking method you mentioned in Virginia was also common over here as you probably know but funnily enough was more commonly known in my local area i,m not sure about northern england as ducking rather than your U.S. term dunking but was intended to get just the same results , it always sickened me that if you drowned you were innocent if you lived you were guilty , wonder what evil twisted genius thought that one up ??? thanks for the info on your local story as well .