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Mary Eastey was referred to as a witch in the 2013 horror movie The Conjuring, as was her supposed relative, Bathsheba, who possessed those who lived on her land. Mary Eastey was mentioned to be a witch in Season 1 Episode 2 of the TV series Charmed. In the 1985 PBS drama Three Sovereigns for Sarah she was played by Kim Hunter.
Her trial in 1712 is commonly but erroneously regarded as the last witch trial in England. [ 13 ] The Witchcraft Act 1735 finally concluded prosecutions for alleged witchcraft in England after sceptical jurists, especially Sir John Holt (1642–1710) , had already largely ended convictions of alleged witches under English law.
The extension of the Witchcraft Act in 1649 sparked a intense witch hunting period. [1] This spilled into the north of England and in Newcastle. [1] 1649 saw Puritan Magistrates at Newcastle send two sergeants, Thomas Shevel and Cuthbert Nicholson, to Scotland to bring an un-named Scottish witch-finder to try witches in Newcastle. [1] [2] [3]
On 8 July Temperance Lloyd was committed to Exeter Gaol to await trial for witchcraft. At the trial she maintained her guilt. At the execution, she tried to give a reason for her actions: "the Devil met me in the street, and bid me kill her, and because I would not he beat me about the head and back."
The witch trials of Vardø were held in Vardø in Finnmark in Northern Norway in the winter of 1662–1663 and were one of the biggest in Scandinavia. Thirty women were put on trial, accused of sorcery and making pacts with the Devil. One was sentenced to a work house, two tortured to death, and eighteen were burned alive at the stake.
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This is a list of people executed for witchcraft, many of whom were executed during organized witch-hunts, particularly during the 15th–18th centuries. Large numbers of people were prosecuted for witchcraft in Europe between 1560 and 1630.
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