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Witch Trials - Witch Hunts

Greensmith, Rebecca

Rebecca Greensmith (17th century) Hartford, Connecticut, woman accused of witchcraft, who confessed and was executed. Rebecca Greensmith and her third husband, Nathaniel, lived next door to Ann Cole. The couple were reasonably
3 August 2017
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Antide Colas

Colas, Antide (d. 1599) was a woman accused of Witchcraft and having sex with Satan. Arrested and tried at Dole, France, Antide Colas was examined by a surgeon, Nicolas Milliere, who found a hole below her navel. Colas confessed that
25 July 2017
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Cole , Eunice

EuniceCole (17th century) was a New Hampshire woman accused repeatedly of witchcraft, who was staked like

Arras witches

Arras witches (1459-1460) A mass witch hunt in Arras, northern France. The accused were brutally tortured

WITCHCRAFT PERSECUTIONS

Many human cultures have imposed legal penalties on people practicing unpopular ritual practices, and inevitably these have now and then been inflicted on innocent people. Trials for witchcraft occurred in traditional Native
31 December 2022

Kempe, Ursula

Kempe, Ursula (d. 1582) English witch brought to trial and executed for harming others. Her CORPSE was staked like a VAMPIRE. Ursula Kempe was accused of crime in a witch hysteria that
29 July 2018

Webster, Mary

Webster, Mary (d. 1696) Massachusetts woman accused of bewitching a man to cause him ill health. Mary Webster was indicted and acquitted at trial, but a gang nearly tortured her to death
2 March 2018

Warboys Witches

Warboys Witches : The story of the Throckmorton (also Throgmorton) children in Huntington, Essex, England, in 1589, is the first well-known case of allegedly possessed young people and the successful destruction of
2 March 2018

Trials by Ordeal

trials by ordeal methods used in trials, including witchcraft trials, to determine guilt or innocence. Trials by ordeal involve a physical test. In England, such trials were introduced by the Saxons. English
2 March 2018

Flade, Dietrich

Dietrich Flade (?–1589). Probably the highest-ranking victim of any witch-hunt in European history, Flade was a prominent citizen of Trier, an archbishopric and also at that time an independent electoral principality of
26 February 2018

Absalon, Anna Pedersdotter

ABSALON, ANNA PEDERSDOTTER (?–1590). The victim of perhaps the single most famous witchcraft accusation made in Scandinavia, Anna was the wife of the Lutheran minister and famous scholar Absalon Pedersen Beyer. The
26 February 2018

North Berwick Witches

North Berwick Witches An alleged Coven of wItches exposed in 1590–91, providing Scotland with its most celebrated witch trials and executions. king James VI (who became James I of England), a believer
19 December 2017

Newbury Witch

Newbury Witch (?–1763) An old woman, probably harmless, who was executed as a witch in 1763 by Cromwell’s soldiers, near Newbury in Berkshire. The soldiers reportedly saw the old woman sailing on
13 November 2017

Newton, Florence

Newton, Florence (ca. mid-17th century) One of the most important witch trials of Ireland was that of Florence Newton, the “Witch of Youghal,” who was tried at the Cork assizes in 1661.
13 November 2017
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