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Also known as the Bargarran witches, the last mass execution for witchcraft in western Europe. [25] Elspeth McEwen: d. 1698 Scotland: Stangled then burned at the stake. Anna Eriksdotter: 1624–1704 Sweden: The last person executed for sorcery in Sweden. Laurien Magee: 1689-1710 Ireland: Burnt at the stake as part of the Islandmagee witch trial ...
The best-known execution of this type is burning at the stake, where the condemned is bound to a large wooden stake and a fire lit beneath. A holocaust is a religious animal sacrifice that is completely consumed by fire, also known as a burnt offering.
The trial was conducted very quickly; the sheriff, Captain David Ross, had judged both guilty and sentenced them to be burned at the stake. The daughter managed to escape, but Janet was stripped, smeared with tar, paraded through the town on a barrel and burned alive. [2] Nine years after her death the witchcraft acts were repealed in Scotland.
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.
One was sentenced to a work house, two tortured to death, and eighteen were burned alive at the stake. It was the third of the three big mass trials of Northern Norway, preceded by the Vardø witch trials (1621) and the Vardø witch trials (1651–1653), and one of the biggest witch trials in Norway. It was the peak of the witch hunt which had ...
The use of torture has been identified as a key factor in converting the trial of one accused witch into a wider social panic, as those being tortured were more likely to accuse a wide array of other local individuals of also being witches. [76] Burning of three witches in Baden, Switzerland (1585), by Johann Jakob Wick The burning of a French ...
The grave of Mary Evelyn Ford. The Witch Child of Pilot's Knob is a Kentucky urban legend that tells of a five-year-old girl named Mary Evelyn Ford and her mother, Mary Louise Ford, being burned at the stake in the 1900s for practicing witchcraft in the town of Marion, Kentucky.
In the Second Burning, Four people. The old wife of Beutler. Two strange women. The old woman who kept the pot-house. In the Third Burning, Five people. Tungersleber, a minstrel. The wife of Kuler. The wife of Stier, a proctor. The brushmaker's wife. The goldsmith's wife. In the Fourth Burning, Five people. The wife of Siegmund the glazier, a ...