Witches (82 pages found in this category)


Ann Izzard

Alleged witch attacked by her neighbours in the village of Great Paxton, Huntingdonshire in 1808.

Barbara Napier, witch

Woman accused of witchcraft and conspiracy to murder during the North Berwick witch trials.

Bargarran witches

Redirected to Paisley witches.

Beatrix Laing, witch

Redirected to Pittenweem witches.

Beatrix Leslie

Scottish midwife executed in 1661 for using witchcraft to cause the collapse of a coal pit, killing two girls.

Bottesford witches

Redirected to Witches of Belvoir.

Bute witches

Six Scottish women accused of witchcraft on Bute during the Great Scottish Witch Hunt of 1661–1662.

Chelmsford witches

Redirected to Agnes Waterhouse, witch.

Edmund Hartley

Cunning man who is alleged to have practised witchcraft at Cleworth Hall in Lancashire

Eleanor Cobham

English noblewoman and alleged sorcerer, forcibly divorced from her husband and sentenced to life imprisonment for treasonable necromancy.