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Jane Wenham (died 1730) was one of the last people to be condemned to death for witchcraft in England, although her conviction was set aside. Her trial in 1712 is commonly but erroneously regarded as the last witch trial in England. [1]
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]
Yorke's case demonstrated that, following the earlier trial of Helen Duncan, the Director of Public Prosecutions had decided that the Witchcraft Act 1735 was still useful in dealing with cases involving mediums. Although the Act was used as a threat in several subsequent cases, the last in 1950, this was the last in which someone was actually ...
The 1682 Bideford witch trial resulted in the last people confirmed to have been executed for witchcraft in England, but the last person to be executed was probably Mary Hicks in 1716, whose story is recorded in an eight-page pamphlet published in the same year. [12]
One of the last people to be executed for witchcraft in Germany. Bertrand Guilladot: d. 1742 France: Priest who confessed to having made a pact with the devil Maria Renata Saenger von Mossau: 1680–1749: Bavaria: One of the last to be executed for witchcraft in Germany. Maria Pauer: 1730s–1750 Austria: Last person executed for witchcraft in ...
The last person to be hanged in Boston for witchcraft Goody Ann Glover (died November 16, 1688) was an Irish former indentured servant and the last person to be hanged in Boston as a witch , although the Salem witch trials in nearby Salem, Massachusetts , occurred mainly in 1692.
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 ...
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.