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
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 charges against her arose mainly out of popular
Luis deRivera (17th century) was a mule drover accused of bewitching cattle and mules to stampede. The case of Luis de Rivera illustrates how problems of all kinds were once easily blamed
Salem Witches : One of the last outbreaks of Witchcraft hysteria, and certainly the largest in the New World, occurred in Salem, Massachusetts, from 1692 to 1693. During the course of the
Margaret Read (d. 1590) was one of three women ever to be executed by burning in England on charges of witchcraft. Margaret read lived in king’s Lynn, East Anglia, England. Read was
Santa Fe Witches (17th century) Two women accused of murder by bewitchment who were tried by the Inquisition. The charges were made in Santa Fe, New Mexico, by Spanish immigrants against a
Sawyer, Elisabeth (?–1621) A poor Englishwoman framed and executed for witchcraft. Elisabeth Sawyer, the “Witch of Edmonton,” was accused of bewitching her neighbors’ children and cattle because the neighbors refused to buy
Stamford Witches (1692) Witch trials in Stamford, Connecticut, in which a servant girl accused six women of afflicting her with fits. Nevertheless, two of the accused came close to being put to
Lincoln Witches (d. 1618) Three women accused of deadly witchcraft against an earl and his family in rutland, England. mother Joan Flower died before trial, but her daughters Margaret and Philippa confessed
Lady Alice Kyteler (?–ca. 1324) Lady Alice kyteler was a wealthy and respected woman and the first person to be tried for witchcraft in Ireland. She was also among the first accused
Junius, Johannes (1573?–1628) Burgomaster, or mayor, of Bamberg, Germany, caught with other local leading citizens in one of the most vicious witch persecutions of the Inquisition. From the early 1600s to about
MargaretJones (?–1648) The first witch to be executed in Massachusetts Bay Colony, on June 15, 1648, in Boston. Margaret Jones was a physician who was accused of witchcraft when patients worsened under
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