Archive for category: Witch Hunts

In medieval times, there were possibly many issues, political, religious, and otherwise, that brought about the persecution of witches....

Contrary to popular belief, witches were not burned at the stake in England, after the Reformation. Instead, death sentences...

“It was not witches who burned. It was women. Women who were seen as Too beautiful Too outspoken Had...

Bridget (d. 1692) The first victim of the Salem Witches hysteria in Massachusetts in 1692–93. Bridget Bishop was the...

Bodin, Jean (1529–1596) French demonologist and political theorist who encouraged the vicious persecution of witches and helped fan the...

A term used by Witches and Pagans to refer to the period in Western history of intense witch-hunting and...

The youngest victim of the Salem Witches hysteria of 1692–93. Dorcas Good was the daughter of Sarah Good, one...

Hartford, Connecticut, woman accused of witchcraft, who confessed and was executed. Rebecca Greensmith and her third husband, Nathaniel, lived...

Accused witch in Hartford,Connecticut, who was believed to be under demonic possession. The case was recorded in a letter...

Burroughs, George (d. 1692) Minister accused of witchcraft and executed in the Salem Witches hysteria in Massachusetts in 1692...

The fourth person to be accused of witchcraft in the Salem Witches hysteria of 1692–93, who was tried and...

An attempt to cure a cow of bewitchment with white magic ended in disaster for Mary Butters, the “Carmoney...

Executed in the Salem Witches hysteria of 1692–93 by being pressed to death for not acknowledging the right of...

Chelmsford witches Four major witch trails in the 16th–17th centuries that resulted in numerous convictions and executions. The first...

Widely held superstitions that it is bad luck to walk beneath a ladder are related in part to fears...

A mass witch hunt in Arras, northern France. The accused were brutally tortured and promised their lives, then burned...

German trader accused of sorcery by Pueblo Indians in northern New Mexico. Bernardo Gruber was imprisoned. He escaped but...

The burning alive of Father Louis Gaufridi for bewitchment of the nuns at Aix in 1611 formed the legal...

Hawkins, Jane (17th century) Massachusetts midwife and healer expelled on suspicions of witchcraft in the delivery of a deformed,...

At the center of the worst witch tortures and trials in Germany was Bamberg, a small state ruled by...

Graves, William (17th century) Connecticut man accused of witchcraft over a dispute with his daughter and son-in-law. Though no...

Hibbins, Ann (d. 1656) Prominent Boston woman convicted of witchcraft and executed. Her chief crime as a witch seemed...

Fairy Witch of Clonmel (1894) A young woman named Bridget Cleary, of Clonmel, County Tipperary, who was tortured and...

Hopkins, Matthew (?–1647?) England’s most notorious professional witch-hunter, who brought about the condemnations and executions of at least 230...

Bury St. Edmonds Witches Of the various witch trials of Suffolk, England, conducted in Bury St. Edmonds during the...

Elizabeth Cogan Holley Kendall was one of the many victims of the infamous Salem witch trials that took place...

Rebecca Nurse is a prominent figure in the history of the Salem Witch Trials. She was born in 1621...

On August 20th 1612 ten people convicted of witchcraft at the Summer Assize held in Lancaster Castle went to...

The Catholic Inquisition published a book that was probably the bloodiest work in the history of humanity: the “Malleaus...

The Witches: Salem, 1692 is a fascinating and deeply researched account of one of the darkest episodes in American...

The witch hunts were a series of persecutions that took place mainly in Europe and North America between the...