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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]
Geillis Duncan also spelled Gillis Duncan (b. unknown d. 4 December 1591) was a young maidservant in 16th century Scotland who was accused of being a witch. [1] [2] She was also the first recorded British named player of the mouth harp.
Agnes Sampson (died 28 January 1591) [1] was a Scottish healer and purported witch. Also known as the "Wise Wife of Keith", [2] Sampson was involved in the North Berwick witch trials in the later part of the sixteenth century.
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 .
The book was first printed anonymously in 1631 at Rinteln and attributed to an "unknown Roman theologian [Incerto Theologo Romano]." [5] It is based on his own experiences in the time and place (along the Rhine) that experienced some of the most intense and fatal witch-hunts, notably the Würzburg witch trials, during which Spee was present ...
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]
Potts' book has been called the "clearest example of an account [of a witch trial] obviously published to display the shining efficiency and justice of the legal system". [3] Although written as an apparently verbatim account, Potts was not reporting what had actually been said during the trials; he was reflecting what had happened. [4]
In contrast, the witch trials in the Protestant Netherlands stopped earlier and they were among the least numerous in Europe, while the large-scale mass witch trials which took place in the autonomous territories of the Catholic prince-bishops in Southern Germany were infamous in all of the Western world, and the contemporary writer Herman ...