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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 ...
Another woman accused in New York was Elizabeth "Goody" Garlick, living during the 1650s in East Hampton, Long Island, would be accused of worse: witchcraft and causing the death of a 16-year-old neighbor who became ill due to a fever. Her case is well known today because of its gravity, and the role of mass hysteria the townspeople caused.
The last Virginia witchcraft trial took place in 1802 in Brooke County, which is now in West Virginia. In that case, a couple claimed that a woman was a witch, an accusation ruled slanderous. [14] The trial by ducking (immersing the accused, bound, in water, to see if she would float) appears to have been used only once in Virginia, to try ...
Abigail Williams (born c. 1681, date of death unknown) [2] was an 11- or 12-year-old girl who, along with nine-year-old Betty Parris, was among the first of the children to falsely accuse their neighbors of witchcraft in 1692; these accusations eventually led to the Salem witch trials.
Membership in the society is by invitation only. [10] [11] To become a member, a woman must be at least sixteen years of age and able to prove lineal bloodline descent from an ancestor who was accused, tried, and/or executed for the practice of witchcraft prior to December 31, 1699, in Colonial America.
Parker's 10th great-grandmother was accused of witchcraft, based on a vision. Sarah Jessica Parker played a witch in 'Hocus Pocus.' Then she discovered her real-life ties to the Salem Witch Trials ...
17th Century periodical about Witchcraft. Goodwife Joan Wright (born c. 1596, date of death unknown), sometimes "Jane Wright" [1] and called ''Surry's Witch," is the first person known to have been legally accused of witchcraft in any British North American colony. [2] [3] [4] [5]
At 50 years old, Thomas Waples testified on August 7, 1668 that Harrison was a "noted [liar]" that has read William Lilly's book in England and spun excessively, [14] a common argument made against women accused of witchcraft as the myth told that the spindle assisted witches in flying their sabbath. Waples also accused Harrison of telling ...