Category: Witch Trials – Witch Hunts

Bamberg Witches : At the center of the worst witch tortures and trials in Germany was Bamberg, a small state ruled by Gottfried Johann Georg…

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…

Bury St. Edmonds Witches Of the various witch trials of Suffolk, England, conducted in Bury St. Edmonds during the 17th century, two episodes stand out.…

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…

Chelmsford witches Four major witch trails in the 16th-17th centuries that resulted in numerous convictions and executions. The first trial occurred in the summer of…

EuniceCole (17th century) was a New Hampshire woman accused repeatedly of witchcraft, who was staked like a vampire when she died. Eunice Cole of Hampton,…

Amy Duny (17th century) A Connecticut nanny accused of cursing the infant under her care. Amy Duny was an old woman who worked for a…

JohnFian (?— 1591 ) A young schoolmaster in Saltpans, Scotland, in the late 16th century, Dr. John Fian was the central figure in Scotland's most…

Arras witches (1459-1460) A mass witch hunt in Arras, northern France. The accused were brutally tortured and promised their lives, then burned at the stake.…