Matilda of the Night
Once upon a time, Matilda was a beautiful, irreverent Norman lady who loved hunting so much that she proclaimed that if there was no hunting…
Month: August 2017
Rhiannon
Rhiannon ORIGIN: Wales Pwyll, Lord of the Welsh kingdom of Dyfed, was riding when he saw before him a gorgeous woman dressed in gold, slowly…
Tylwyth Teg
Tylwyth Teg ORIGIN: Wales Tylwyth Teg means the “Fair Family,” but this may be a euphemism for these Welsh Fairies. Tylwyth Teg live in organized…
Mother Redcap
Mother Redcap : A name applied to English ale-wives, wise women and witches. It was also given to Familiar animals. One Mother Redcap was an…
Mora Witches
Mora Witches (1669) Witch hunts in Mora, in central Sweden, in which 85 people were executed for allegedly seducing some 300 children and spiriting them…
Mather, Increase
Increase Mather (1639–1723) Illustrious Puritan minister and intellectual who viewed witchcraft and supernatural happenings as evidence of God’s growing displeasure with New England. While his…
Lemp, Rebecca
RebeccaLemp (d. 1590) was one of 32 women convicted of witchcraft and burned in a witch hunt in Nordlingen, Swabia, Germany. The case of Rebecca…
Leek, Sybil
Sybil Leek (1923–1983) was an English witch and astrologer who moved to America in the 1960s and gained fame by publicizing the renaissance of witchcraft…
Lancre, Pierre de
Pierre deLancre (1550?–1631?) Infamous French witch-trial judge who terrorized the Basque region, sent an estimated 600 persons to their deaths at the stake and compiled…
Lancaster (also Lancashire) Witches
Lancaster (also Lancashire) Witches Two notable witch trials of England took place in the Pendle Forest area of Lancaster County, in 1612 and 1633. The…
