Witches (82 pages found in this category)


Elizabeth Francis, witch

English woman tried three times for witchcraft, hanged in 1579 for bewitchment and murder by witchcraft.

Elizabeth Fraunces

Redirected to Elizabeth Francis.

Elizabeth Hicks, witch

Redirected to Whole trial and examination of Mrs. Mary Hicks and her daughter Elizabeth.

Elizabeth Lowys

First person to be prosecuted under the Witchcraft Act of 1563.

Elizabeth Mortlock, witch

Woman from the small farming village of Pampisford, in Cambridgeshire, convicted of witchcraft in an ecclestiastical court in Ely in 1566.

Elizabeth Style

Redirected to Windsor witches.

Elleine Smithe, witch

Essex woman convicted and hanged for witchcraft in 1579

Elspeth Reoch

Scottish woman who confessed to witchcraft and deceiving islanders by pretending she was mute.

Essex witches

Collective name given to the 31 people accused of witchcraft in the English county of Essex between 1566 and 1589.

Euphame MacCalzean

Wealthy Scottish heiress and member of the gentry convicted of witchcraft. A key figure in the North Berwick witchcraft trials of 1590–1591.