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Bute witches

Six Scottish women accused of witchcraft on Bute during the Great Scottish Witch Hunt of 1661–1662.

Buttery spirit

Redirected to Abbey lubber.

Buttock Mail

Fine payable to the ecclesiastical courts for the crime of fornication, as an alternative to a session on the stool of repentance.

By the Shortest of Heads

1915 British film starring a ten-year-old George Formby, now considered to be lost.

Byrom, Allen, Sedgwick and Place

The first bank in Manchester, founded in 1771. It collapsed in 1788 when one of its major borrowers declared bankruptcy.

C. F. Varley

Pioneering English telegraph engineer and electrician, and an investigator into spiritualism.

C. S. Lewis bibliography

List of the works written by C. S. Lewis (1898–1963), best-known for his Chronicles of Narnia series of books.

Cadishead

Redirected to Irlam.

Cailleach

Ancient Celtic hag goddess who in her various guises shaped the land, controlled the forces of nature, and was responsible for the harsh nature of winter.

Calder and Hebble Navigation

Constructed between 1758 and 1834, the navigation makes the River Calder navigable between Sowerby Bridge and Wakefield in the West Riding of Yorkshire.