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Victoria Helen McCrae Duncan (née MacFarlane, 25 November 1897 – 6 December 1956) was a Scottish medium best known as the last person to be imprisoned under the Witchcraft Act 1735 (9 Geo. 2. c. 5) for fraudulent claims. She was famous for producing ectoplasm which was proved to be made from cheesecloth. [1] [2] [3] [4]
Beheaded; last person to be executed for witchcraft in Europe [27] Maria da Conceição: d. 1798: Portuguese Brazil: Accused and convicted of witchcraft to produce medicines and potions to attract men. Leatherlips : 1732–1810: Wyandot people: Native American leader, sentenced to death for witchcraft and executed by tomahawk. [28] Barbara ...
Grace White Sherwood (1660–1740), called the Witch of Pungo, is the last person known to have been convicted of witchcraft in Virginia. A farmer, healer, and midwife, she was accused by her neighbors of transforming herself into a cat, damaging crops, and causing the death of livestock. She was charged with witchcraft several times.
Anna Jansdochter Muggen (d. 1608), was an alleged Dutch witch. She was the last person to be executed for witchcraft in Holland, then the most influential province of the Netherlands. She has been referred [by whom?] to as the last person to be executed for witchcraft in the Netherlands.
In 1648, Margaret Jones, a midwife, became the first person in Massachusetts — the second in New England — to be executed for witchcraft, decades before the infamous Salem witch trials. Nearly ...
At her trial in September 1944 at London's Old Bailey, she was found guilty on seven counts against the Witchcraft Act 1735 of pretending "to cause the spirits of dead persons to be present." [2] [self-published source?] Yorke was fined £5 and placed on a good behaviour bond for three years, promising she would hold no more séances. The light ...
The Witch's Stone in Littletown, Dornoch, marks the alleged spot of Horne's execution. [3]She is the subject of the play The Last Witch by Rona Munro, which premiered at the 2009 Edinburgh International Festival [5] and was part of the 2018 summer season at Pitlochry Festival Theatre.
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