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  2. Witch trials in Maryland - Wikipedia

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    The Maryland Witch Trials were a series of hearings and prosecutions of people accused of witchcraft in Colonial Maryland between June 1654, and October 1712. It was not unique, but is a Colonial American example of the much broader phenomenon of witch trials in the early modern period, which took place also in Europe.

  3. Rebecca Fowler - Wikipedia

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    Rebecca Fowler (killed October 9, 1685) was a woman convicted and executed for witchcraft in 17th-century Maryland. Around a dozen witch trials were conducted in Maryland during the 17th and 18th centuries, with most being acquitted. Fowler is the only documented legal execution of an alleged witch in Maryland history. [1] [2]

  4. Moll Dyer - Wikipedia

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    Local legend keeps that Moll Dyer was a 17th-century colonist in Leonardtown, Maryland. Dates surrounding the origin of this folktale are hazy, but the consensus is that the events took place during a February in the late 1690s- during the Maryland Witch Trials that resulted in multiple acquittals and one recorded death. There are currently no ...

  5. Category:Witchcraft in Maryland - Wikipedia

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    Witch trials in Maryland; Z. Michael Zittle Jr. This page was last edited on 1 September 2022, at 02:25 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons ...

  6. Grace Sherwood - Wikipedia

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    Witch Duck Bay as seen from the very end of North Witchduck Road on Witch Duck Point in Virginia Beach, looking north. This is the place where Grace Sherwood was ducked. At about 10 a.m. on July 10, 1706, Sherwood was taken down a dirt lane now known as Witchduck Road, [ 14 ] [ 44 ] to a plantation near the mouth of the Lynnhaven River .

  7. What Everyone Gets Wrong About Witches, According to a ... - AOL

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    If you know the real history of the Salem Witch Trials, then you’d know that they weren’t really about dispelling the towns of Salem and Danvers, MA of evil witches.It was more complicated ...

  8. List of people executed for witchcraft - Wikipedia

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    Hanged during the Salem witch trials; her children had claimed she was a witch while undergoing torture. Martha Corey: 1620s–1692: Massachusetts Bay Colony: Hanged during the Salem witch trials: Mary Eastey: 1634–1692: Massachusetts Bay Colony: Hanged during the Salem witch trials: Mary Parker: d. 1692: Massachusetts Bay Colony: Hanged ...

  9. 40 witch movies that will cast a spell on you - AOL

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    “The Blair Witch Project” is the supernatural horror story of three student filmmakers who hike into the Black Hills in Maryland in 1994 to try and document the infamous Blair Witch. Their ...