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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.
Janet Horne: The last person to be legally executed for witchcraft in the British Isles, in 1727. Helen Duncan: The last person to be imprisoned under the Witchcraft Act 1735, in April 1944. Her conviction led to the repeal of the Act and the introduction of the Fraudulent Mediums Act 1951.
Claire-Marie Brisson was born in Detroit, Michigan and grew up in Dearborn, Michigan.In an interview with Radio-Canada, [4] Brisson remarks how important it is for her to identify with her American and Canadian roots, mentioning her family's village Saint-Fabien-de-Panet and her grandfather, Ernest Brisson, who was an early influence in her contemporary efforts to bring visibility to Franco ...
Long title: An Act to repeal the statute made in the first year of the reign of King James the First, intitutled, An Act against conjuration, witchcraft, and dealing with evil and wicked spirits, except so much thereof as repeals an Act of the fifth year of the reign of Queen Elizabeth, Against conjurations, inchantments and witchcrafts, and to repeal, an Act passed in the parliament of ...
The eight women were Janet Carson, Janet Latimer, Janet Main, Janet Millar, Margaret Mitchell, Catherine McCalmond, Janet Liston and Elizabeth Sellor. [3] They were tried in March 1711 at the County Antrim spring assizes , presided over by two judges, Anthony Upton of the Common Pleas and James Macartney of the King's Bench .
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Accusations made by a teenage boy, Patrick Morton, against a local woman, Beatrix Layng, led to the death in prison of Thomas Brown, and, in January 1705, the murder of Janet Cornfoot by a lynch mob in the village.
The Witches of Bo'ness were a group of women accused of witchcraft in Bo'ness, Scotland in the late 17th century and ultimately executed for this crime. Among the more famous cases noted by historians, in 1679, Margaret Pringle, Bessie Vickar, Annaple Thomsone, and two women both called Margaret Hamilton were all accused of being witches, alongside "warlock" William Craw.