ABSALON, ANNA PEDERSDOTTER (?–1590). The victim of perhaps the single most famous witchcraft accusation made in Scandinavia, Anna was the ...
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Colas, Antide (d. 1599) was a woman accused of Witchcraft and having sex with Satan. Arrested and tried at Dole, ...
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Arras witches (1459-1460) A mass witch hunt in Arras, northern France. The accused were brutally tortured and promised their lives, ...
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Bamberg Witches : At the center of the worst witch tortures and trials in Germany was Bamberg, a small state ...
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Bargarran Witches (1696-1697) Scottish witchcraft hysteria started by a girl. The case bears similarities to the Warboys Witches and to ...
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Bury St. Edmonds Witches Of the various witch trials of Suffolk, England, conducted in Bury St. Edmonds during the 17th ...
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Mary Butters (late 18th-early 19th centuries) : An attempt to cure a cow of bewitchment with white Magic ended in ...
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Chelmsford witches Four major witch trails in the 16th-17th centuries that resulted in numerous convictions and executions. The first trial ...
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EuniceCole (17th century) was a New Hampshire woman accused repeatedly of witchcraft, who was staked like a vampire when she ...
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Amy Duny (17th century) A Connecticut nanny accused of cursing the infant under her care. Amy Duny was an old ...
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JohnFian (?— 1591 ) A young schoolmaster in Saltpans, Scotland, in the late 16th century, Dr. John Fian was the ...
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Dietrich Flade (?–1589). Probably the highest-ranking victim of any witch-hunt in European history, Flade was a prominent citizen of Trier, ...
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WilliamGraves (17th century) Connecticut man accused of witchcraft over a dispute with his daughter and son-in-law. Though no legal action ...
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Rebecca Greensmith (17th century) Hartford, Connecticut, woman accused of witchcraft, who confessed and was executed. Rebecca Greensmith and her third ...
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BernardoGruber (17th century) German trader accused of sorcery by Pueblo Indians in northern New Mexico. Bernardo Gruber was imprisoned. He ...
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JaneHawkins (17th century) Massachusetts midwife and healer expelled on suspicions of witchcraft in the delivery of a deformed, stillborn fetus ...
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Hertford Witches (d. 1606) Two women executed for crimes committed by witchcraft in royston, England. Joan Harrison and her daughter ...
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Ann Hibbins (d. 1656) was a prominent Boston woman convicted of witchcraft and executed. Her chief crime as a witch ...
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Inquisition The Catholic Church’s persecution of heretics, lasting several centuries and spreading throughout Europe and even into the New World ...
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Isaac de Aueiran (d. 1609) was a young Frenchman executed for Witchcraft and having a Pact with the Devil. Isaac ...
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Island Magee Witches The last witch trial to occur in Ireland took place in 1711 and involved the mysterious death ...
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MargaretJones (?–1648) The first witch to be executed in Massachusetts Bay Colony, on June 15, 1648, in Boston. Margaret Jones ...
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Junius, Johannes (1573?–1628) Burgomaster, or mayor, of Bamberg, Germany, caught with other local leading citizens in one of the most ...
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Kempe, Ursula (d. 1582) English witch brought to trial and executed for harming others. Her CORPSE was staked like a ...
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Lady Alice Kyteler (?–ca. 1324) Lady Alice kyteler was a wealthy and respected woman and the first person to be ...
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Lancaster (also Lancashire) Witches Two notable witch trials of England took place in the Pendle Forest area of Lancaster County, ...
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RebeccaLemp (d. 1590) was one of 32 women convicted of witchcraft and burned in a witch hunt in Nordlingen, Swabia, ...
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Lincoln Witches (d. 1618) Three women accused of deadly witchcraft against an earl and his family in rutland, England. mother ...
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Mora Witches (1669) Witch hunts in Mora, in central Sweden, in which 85 people were executed for allegedly seducing some ...
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Newbury Witch (?–1763) An old woman, probably harmless, who was executed as a witch in 1763 by Cromwell’s soldiers, near ...
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Newton, Florence (ca. mid-17th century) One of the most important witch trials of Ireland was that of Florence Newton, the ...
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North Berwick Witches An alleged Coven of wItches exposed in 1590–91, providing Scotland with its most celebrated witch trials and ...
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Northampton Witches (d. 1612) Five men and women who were arraigned and tried on charges of witchcraft and who were ...
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Hug Parsons h (mid-17th century) One of the few trials in the early American colonies of a man accused of ...
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Aupetit, Pierre (d. 1598) French priest executed on charges of sorcery and trafficking with the Devil. Pierre Aupetit, who lived ...
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Margaret Read (d. 1590) was one of three women ever to be executed by burning in England on charges of ...
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Luis deRivera (17th century) was a mule drover accused of bewitching cattle and mules to stampede. The case of Luis ...
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Trials and executions of accused witches in Salem, Massachusetts, from 1692 to 1693. In all, 141 people were arrested as ...
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Salem Witches : One of the last outbreaks of Witchcraft hysteria, and certainly the largest in the New World, occurred ...
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Santa Fe Witches (17th century) Two women accused of murder by bewitchment who were tried by the Inquisition. The charges ...
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Sawyer, Elisabeth (?–1621) A poor Englishwoman framed and executed for witchcraft. Elisabeth Sawyer, the “Witch of Edmonton,” was accused of ...
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St. Osyth Witches : A witch hunt that swept through a remote coastal area of Essex, England, in 1582 brought ...
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Stamford Witches (1692) Witch trials in Stamford, Connecticut, in which a servant girl accused six women of afflicting her with ...
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trials by ordeal methods used in trials, including witchcraft trials, to determine guilt or innocence. Trials by ordeal involve a ...
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Urbain Grandier (d. 1634) was a priest framed and executed in the Loudun Possessions of Ursuline nuns in France. Urbain ...
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Warboys Witches : The story of the Throckmorton (also Throgmorton) children in Huntington, Essex, England, in 1589, is the first ...
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Webster, Mary (d. 1696) Massachusetts woman accused of bewitching a man to cause him ill health. Mary Webster was indicted ...
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Many human cultures have imposed legal penalties on people practicing unpopular ritual practices, and inevitably these have now and then ...
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Zugarramurdi Witches As part of their efforts to stem public hysteria over witches and sorcerers (see sorcery), Spanish inquisitors conducted ...
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