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Rhiannon (Welsh pronunciation: [r̥iˈan.ɔn]) is a major figure in Welsh mythology, appearing in the First Branch of the Mabinogi, and again in the Third Branch. Ronald Hutton called her "one of the great female personalities in World literature", adding that "there is in fact, nobody quite like her in previous human literature". [2]
Arrested after uploading a YouTube video criticizing Lee Kuan Yew shortly after the first Singaporean prime minister's death. His YouTube channel was suspended for pedophile advocacy videos, and he is currently in prison in the United States on child pornography charges. Charlie Veitch: United Kingdom Charles Veitch
Lilias Adie's first name also appears as Lilly, [3] and her last name was also recorded as Addie [4] and Eddie. [3] In 1704, Adie was held in prison for the crime of practising witchcraft. [5] Her story is preserved in the 1704 Kirk session minutes. [6] Illness among local residents created a brief but intense period of witch-hunting in the ...
[7] Lasher, whom Publishers Weekly describes as "devil, seducer, spirit", [2] is a demon linked to the Mayfairs for generations. [4] Summoned by Scottish witch Suzanne Mayfair in the 1600s, Lasher "goes on to bedevil her descendants down to the present day, seeing in them the means of fulfilling his ghastly and unnatural ambitions."
This is a list of people associated with the Salem Witch Trials, a series of hearings and prosecutions of people accused of witchcraft in colonial Massachusetts between March 1692 and May 1693. The trials resulted in the executions of twenty people, most of whom were women.
The last persons known to have been executed for witchcraft in England were the so-called Bideford witches in 1682. The last person executed for witchcraft in Great Britain was Janet Horne, in Scotland in 1727. [89] The Witchcraft Act 1735 (9 Geo. 2 c. 5) abolished the penalty of execution for witchcraft, replacing it with imprisonment.
let the sword fall from his hand to the ground, and writhing over the table he bowed and fell, and spilt upon the floor the food and the two-handled cup. With his brow he beat the earth in agony of soul, and with both his feet he spurned and shook the chair, and a mist [ἀχλύς] was shed over his eyes.
The Testament of Solomon is a pseudepigraphical work, purportedly written by King Solomon, in which the author mostly describes particular demons who he enslaved to help build the temple, the questions he put to them about their deeds and how they could be thwarted, and their answers, which provide a kind of self-help manual against demonic activity.