Jean Adam (30 April 1704 – 3 April 1765) was a Scottish poet whose best-known work is “There’s Nae Luck Aboot The Hoose”.
Jean Lyon, Countess of Angus
Scottish countess named in North Berwick witch trials as consulting with witches
Jean Maxwell, sorceress
Scottish cunning woman convicted of pretending to practise witchcraft
Jennifer Westwood
British author, broadcaster and folklorist.
Jenny Greenteeth
Water spirit said to inhabit pools in Cheshire, Lancashire and Shropshire. If children venture too close, then she reaches out of the water and drags them in to their deaths.
Jenny Pipes
Redirected to ducking stool.
Jerome Caminada
19th-century police detective in Manchester, England. Caminada served with the police between 1868 and 1899, and has been called Manchester’s Sherlock Holmes.
Jerry Abershaw
18th-century English highwayman.
Jervaulx Abbey
Ruined Cistercian monastery and scheduled monument about one and a half miles (2.4 km) east of East Witton in Wensleydale, North Yorkshire.
Jessie Saxby
Author and folklorist from Unst, one of the Shetland Islands of Scotland. She also had political interests and was a suffragette.
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