Three women from the Lancashire village of Samlesbury – Jane Southworth, Jennet Bierley, and Ellen Bierley – accused by a 14-year-old girl, Grace Sowerbutts, of practising witchcraft. Their trial at Lancaster Assizes in England on 19 August 1612 was one in a series of witch trials held there over two days. All three women were acquitted.
Shrew of Kentish Town
Redirected to Jinney Bingham, Mother Damnable
Tyldesley witch
Redirected to Edmund Hartley.
Windsor witches
Four women from Windsor executed for witchcraft in 1579.
Witch of Berkeley
Legendary 11th–century witch who tried and failed to prevent the Devil from claiming her body after her death.
Witch of Burslem
Redirected to Molly Leigh (witch).
Witch of Endor
Female sorcerer who appears in the Old Testament (1 Samuel 28:3–25).
Witch of Redden
Redirected to Janet Kennedy, visionary.
Witch of Stapenhill
Redirected to Alice Gooderidge.
Witches of Belvoir
Mother and her two daughters accused of causing the deaths by witchcraft of two young nobles, Henry and Francis Manners.