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Janet Horne (died 1727) was the last person to be executed legally for witchcraft in the British Isles. [1] Horne and her daughter were arrested in Dornoch in Sutherland and imprisoned on the accusations of her neighbours. Horne was showing signs of senility, and her daughter had a deformity of her hands and feet.
The Witches of Bo'ness were a group of women accused of witchcraft in Bo'ness, Scotland in the late 17th century and ultimately executed for this crime. Among the more famous cases noted by historians, in 1679, Margaret Pringle, Bessie Vickar, Annaple Thomsone, and two women both called Margaret Hamilton were all accused of being witches, alongside "warlock" William Craw.
Her name was reported as Janet Horne; she was tried and condemned to death in 1727. There is a stone, the Witch's Stone, commemorating her death, inscribed with the year 1722. [9] The golf course designer Donald Ross began his career as a greenkeeper on the Royal Dornoch links. The golf course is next to the award-winning blue flag beach.
In December 1662, Guthrie, along with her thirteen year old daughter Janet and 11 other women Including Isobell Shyrie, were accused of witchcraft and held at the Forfar tolbooth. [ 2 ] Guthrie was subsequently strangled and burned with tar before being sentenced and judicially executed at the Playfield Forfar (situated on the site of the ...
John Kincaid was based primarily in Tranent and earned his living from 'unmasking' witches in the localities of Tranent, Dalkeith, Dirleton, Forfar, and Kinross. [1]His dates of birth and death are unknown and little is known of his personal life.
Mathew Frazer Horne (born 6 September 1978) is an English actor, comedian, singer, television presenter and narrator. He is best known for appearing on several BBC sketch shows and sitcoms, most notably Gavin & Stacey (as Gavin Shipman ), The Catherine Tate Show , Horne & Corden , and Bad Education .
Lilias Adie (c. 1640 – 1704) [1] was a Scottish woman who lived in the coastal village of Torryburn, Fife, Scotland. [1] She was accused of practising witchcraft and fornicating with the devil but died in prison before sentence could be passed.
Unlike many accused of witchcraft, Alice was a member of a wealthy and noble family who owned land in Pendle. [1]She was accused of being present at a witch's coven on Good Friday, 1612, and later causing the death of Henry Milton.