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Witchfinders were people who were paid to test whether someone was a witch. The witchfinder in Newcastle witch trials came from Scotland. [5] He was paid 20 shillings [2] per "witch" he found. In the end, the witchfinder in Newcastle trials was cast into prison. [1]
Witchcraft pamphlet:A Rehearsal both Strange and True, 1579. The Windsor Witches was the common name for a witch trial in Windsor and Abingdon in England in 1579. [1] The name referred to the four women tried and executed for sorcery: the cunning woman Mother Elizabeth Stile, Mother Devell, Mother Dutten and Mother Margaret.
The Forfar witch trials ended with the execution of Helen Guthrie, who was the last woman to be executed for witchcraft in the town. Helen Guthrie, in her confession, is said to have described an event on about 18 July 1661 when she, Shyrie, and Elspet Alexander travelled to Barry and, after drinking three pints of ale, went to the shore to ...
The trials took place not quite seven years after the Gunpowder Plot to blow up the Houses of Parliament in an attempt to kill King James and the Protestant aristocracy had been foiled. It was alleged that the Pendle witches had hatched their own gunpowder plot to blow up Lancaster Castle , although historian Stephen Pumfrey has suggested that ...
Annaple Thomsone - a dress of accused witch shown on location at Edinburgh Central Library as part of the exhibition by Carolyn Sutton, Witches in Word not Deed. Annaple Thomsone, also known as Annabel Thomson and Annaple Thomson (died 23 Dec 1679), was accused and tried for being a witch in Bo'ness, Scotland.
Woodcut image from Newes from Scotland (1591) depicting the devil with Agnes Sampson, one of the witches detailed in the survey [1]. The Survey of Scottish Witchcraft is an online database of witch trials in early modern Scotland, containing details of 3,837 accused gathered from contemporary court documents covering the period from 1563 until the repeal of the Scottish Witchcraft Act in 1736. [2]
Witch trials were most frequent in England in the first half of the 17th century. They reached their most intense phase during the English Civil War of the 1640s and the Puritan era of the 1650s. This was a period of intense witch hunts, known for witch hunters such as Matthew Hopkins .
Newes from Scotland - declaring the damnable life and death of Dr. Fian, a notable sorcerer is a pamphlet printed in London in 1591, and likely written by James Carmichael, who later advised King James VI on the writing of his book Daemonologie. [2]