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Mary and her daughter Elizabeth were to be the last Witches executed in England in Huntingdon. [26] Janet Horne: d. 1727 Scotland: Last British person to be executed for sorcery; burned to death. [citation needed] Catherine Repond: 1662–1731 Switzerland: Strangled and burned to death. Helena Curtens: 1722–1738: Electoral Palatinate
In the Gesta Regum, an account written by William of Malmsbury, a reference was made to a witch living in Berkeley. Discussing the death of Pope Gregory VI, which occurred in 1046, he digressed to discuss the death of a witch that occurred at about the same time. According to William's account, she was "well-versed in witchcraft, who was not ...
Burning of the Templars, 1314 Burning of William Sawtre, 1401 John Badby burned in a barrel, 1410 Burning of Jan Hus in Constance, 1415 Joan of Arc at the stake, 1431 Rogers' execution at Smithfield, 1555 Burning of John Hooper in Gloucester, 1555 Burning of Thomas Hawkes, 1555. Ramihrdus of Cambrai [4] [5] (1076 or 1077) (burned)
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Witch trials were most frequent in England in the first half of the 17th century. They reached their most intense phase during the English Civil War of the 1640s and the Puritan era of the 1650s. This was a period of intense witch hunts, known for witch hunters such as Matthew Hopkins.
A report detailing the burning of Prudence Lee in 1652. A pamphlet detailing the burning in April 1652 of Joan Peterson, the so-called Witch of Wapping, also describes the execution of Prudence Lee, found guilty of mariticide. Lee was apparently brought on foot, between two sheriff's officers and dressed in a red waistcoat, to the place of ...
“When you go back far enough, there's going to be some kind of magic in the religion or native land you come from,” says Cary Chandler, a Salem, Mass.-based witch and celebrity astrologer ...