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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
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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 in witchcraft, took part in the proceedings himself.
19 December 2017
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Urbain Grandier 

Urbain Grandier (d. 1634) was a priest framed and executed in the Loudun Possessions of Ursuline

Bamberg Witches

Bamberg Witches : At the center of the worst witch tortures and trials in Germany was

Gruber, Bernardo

BernardoGruber (17th century) German trader accused of sorcery by Pueblo Indians in northern New Mexico. Bernardo Gruber was imprisoned. He escaped but died a strange death. In 1668, Gruber arrived in New
3 August 2017

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

Graves, William

WilliamGraves (17th century) Connecticut man accused of witchcraft over a dispute with his daughter and son-in-law. Though no legal action was taken against William Graves, his case indicates how easily personal squabbles
3 August 2017

Isaac de Aueiran

Isaac de Aueiran (d. 1609) was a young Frenchman executed for Witchcraft and having a Pact with the Devil. Isaac de Aueiran confessed at his trial that he was 10 or 12
25 July 2017

Pierre Aupetit

Aupetit, Pierre (d. 1598) French priest executed on charges of sorcery and trafficking with the Devil. Pierre Aupetit, who lived in Fossas, Limousin, was 50 years old when he was arrested and
25 July 2017

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
25 July 2017

Bargarran Witches

Bargarran Witches (1696-1697) Scottish witchcraft hysteria started by a girl. The case bears similarities to the Warboys Witches and to the Salem Witches, in which the fits of supposedly possessed children led
25 July 2017

Butters, Mary

Mary Butters (late 18th-early 19th centuries) : An attempt to cure a cow of bewitchment with white Magic ended in disaster for Mary Butters, the “Carmoney Witch,” who narrowly escaped a trial
25 July 2017
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