Witches & witchcraft (125 pages found in this category)


Chelmsford witches

Redirected to Agnes Waterhouse, witch.

David Gregory

Scottish physician and inventor accused of witchcraft. He inherited Kinnairdy Castle in Banffshire.

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.

Elfshot

Medical condition caused by invisible elves or witches shooting invisible arrows at people or animals.

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.