Witches & witchcraft (125 pages found in this category)


Jean Maxwell, sorceress

Scottish cunning woman convicted of pretending to practise witchcraft

Jinney Bingham, Mother Damnable

17th-century woman also known as Mother Red Cap and the Shrew of Kentish Town, suspected of being a witch, a murderer and poisoner.

Joan Cunny, witch

One of the 31 Essex witches, hanged in 1589.

John Fian

School teacher convicted of witchcraft in 1590, a central figure in the North Berwick witch trials

John Kincaid, witch-finder

Professional witch-finder or pricker of witches based in Tranent, East Lothian.

John Kincaid, witch-pricker

Redirected to John Kincaid, witch-finder.

Joseph Neil Paton

Damask designer and antiquarian with large collection containing witchcraft objects, including the skull of Lilias Adie. Father of the artist Joseph Noel Paton.

Kiss of Shame

Redirected to Osculum Infame.

Liber Poenitentialis

Set of 7th-century ecclesiastical laws applied to women – and only women – perfoming acts such as divination, raising storms, or murder by the use of magic.

Lilias Adie, witch

Elderly Torryburn woman who died after confessing to witchcraft; her face was reconstructed from photos of her skull.