The Cunning

A teenager with Down’s syndrome helps herself, and others, to escape from accusations of witchcraft.
1724
Dolly is locked up in a cell with her mother, sentenced to be tarred, feathered and burned. Elizabeth, though, has a plan for escape.
Dolly fakes her own death and Elizabeth has her shackles unlocked. However, the Witchfinder soon arrives and declares that Dolly’s body can still be paraded and burned.
Elizabeth offers an ultimate sacrifice to save her daughter but Dolly takes matters into her own hands at this point. She ‘rises’ from the dead, frightening the Witchfinder and his henchmen. They look on, petrified, as Dolly demonstrates a vanishing trick with a piece of straw. She herds them into a corner of the cell, takes the key and escapes with Elizabeth, locking their captors into the cell behind them.
As they run through fields to unlock more cells and set others free, a marksman who is patrolling the area shoots at Dolly. She closes her eyes, expecting death. Miraculously, though, a bird swoops in front of her and takes the hit.