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Many of the witchcraft accusations were driven at least in part by acrimonious relations between the families of the plaintiffs and defendants. Unless otherwise specified, dates provided in this list use Julian-dated month and day but New Style-enumerated year (i.e., years begin on January 1 and end on December 31, in the modern style).
Artistic depiction of the execution by burning of three alleged witches in Baden, Switzerland in 1585. This is a list of people executed for witchcraft, many of whom were executed during organized witch-hunts, particularly during the 15th–18th centuries. Large numbers of people were prosecuted for witchcraft in Europe between 1560 and 1630.
The earliest recorded witchcraft execution was that of Alse Young in 1647 in Hartford, Connecticut, the start of the Connecticut Witch Trials which lasted until 1663. Historian Clarence F. Jewett included a list of other people executed in New England in his 1881 book. [18]
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 ...
This is a list of people executed ... Witchcraft: May 26, 1647: ... See also Goodheart, where there are 158 death penalty victims identified for Connecticut. [7 ...
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Witch hunting (8 C, 16 P) Pages in category "Crimes involving Satanism or the occult" ... Adam (murder victim) Sara Aldrete; Pazuzu Algarad; Altamira child emasculations;
Essex executed 82 people for witchcraft – more than any other county in England. Worland has spent 18 years unearthing victims’ details, and has successfully campaigned to have memorials to ...