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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.
The last to be executed as a witch in Scotland was Janet Horne in 1727, condemned to death for using her own daughter as a flying horse in order to travel. Horne was burnt alive in a tar barrel. Horne was burnt alive in a tar barrel.
In December 1662, Guthrie, along with her thirteen year old daughter Janet and 11 other women Including Isobell Shyrie, were accused of witchcraft and held at the Forfar tolbooth. [ 2 ] Guthrie was subsequently strangled and burned with tar before being sentenced and judicially executed at the Playfield Forfar (situated on the site of the ...
After escaping, Cornfoot made her way to the home village of Leuchars, [33] [page needed] eight miles from Pittenweem, where she was either discovered by the minister, George Gordon, [25] or had approached him for help. [34] [page needed] For the reward of £10, [35] he arranged an armed guard of two men to return her to Cowper's house on 30 ...
She married a book seller named George Ker in 1572. George Ker died at La Rochelle in 1576, and she then married Archibald Douglas, a burgess of Edinburgh, whose brother Robert Douglas was the laird of Corshogill near Drumlanrig and Durisdeer. [1] Her family included a son and a daughter, Janet Douglas. [2]
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Arms of Livingston of Callendar [1]. Descendants of the Livingstons include Presidents of the United States George H. W. Bush and George W. Bush, First Lady of the United States Eleanor Roosevelt, suffragist Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Congressman Bob Livingston of Louisiana, much of the wealthy Astor family, New York Governor Hamilton Fish, and actress Jane Wyatt.
Janet Jackson gushed over the “beautiful impact” her son Eissa Al Mana has made on her life. “The most important thing I’ve done, the biggest thing I’ve done, is become a mother, and it ...