Butters, Mary Mary Butters late 18th-early 19th centuries : An attempt to cure a cow of bewitchment with white Magic ended in Chelmsford witches Chelmsford witches Four major witch trails in the 16thth centuries that resulted in numerous convictions and executions. The first trial Cole , Eunice EuniceCole 17th century was a New Hampshire woman accused repeatedly of witchcraft, who was staked like a vampire when she Amy Duny was an old Fian, John JohnFian?
John Fian was the Flade, Dietrich Dietrich Flade? Probably the highest-ranking victim of any witch-hunt in European history, Flade was a prominent citizen of Trier, Graves, William WilliamGraves 17th century Connecticut man accused of witchcraft over a dispute with his daughter and son-in-law. Though no legal action Greensmith, Rebecca Rebecca Greensmith 17th century Hartford, Connecticut, woman accused of witchcraft, who confessed and was executed.
Rebecca Greensmith and her third Bernardo Gruber was imprisoned. Hawkins, Jane JaneHawkins 17th century Massachusetts midwife and healer expelled on suspicions of witchcraft in the delivery of a deformed, stillborn fetus Hertford Witches Hertford Witches d. Joan Harrison and her daughter Hibbins, Ann Ann Hibbins d. Her chief crime as a witch Isaac de Aueiran Isaac de Aueiran d.
Island Magee Witches Island Magee Witches The last witch trial to occur in Ireland took place in and involved the mysterious death Jones, Margaret MargaretJones? Margaret Jones Junius, Johannes Junius, Johannes ? Kempe, Ursula Kempe, Ursula d. Lemp, Rebecca RebeccaLemp d. Lincoln Witches Lincoln Witches d. Mora Witches Mora Witches Witch hunts in Mora, in central Sweden, in which 85 people were executed for allegedly seducing some Newbury Witch Newbury Witch?
Newton, Florence Newton, Florence ca. Northampton Witches Northampton Witches d. Between March and October , Scotland was gripped by witchcraft hysteria.
Around people were tried for witchcraft and are believed to have been executed. Amongst them, the trials of in which people were accused of witchcraft. Most were horrifically tortured to secure confessions.
The trials of were markedly different from those that had preceded them in The political conflict between the King and the Presbyterian church, alongside outbreaks of plague and famine, may have been the catalysts for the witch hunts. One documented case from Aberdeenshire is of Isobel Skuddie. She was accused of gathering human bones to create love charms.
Convicted of witchcraft, she was subsequently burned at the stake. The trial of Margaret Aitken is often cited in discussions of the trials. Under torture, she pled guilty to the charges of witchcraft but managed to save her life by swearing her ability to recognise other witches. The witch trials were a means of controlling women and ridding the communities of unfavourable or rebellious characters.
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