Agnes Sampson
Scottish midwife, cunning woman and healer; central figure in the North Berwick witch trials.
Lilias Adie, witch
Elderly Torryburn woman who died after confessing to witchcraft; her face was reconstructed from photos of her skull.
Elleine Smithe, witch
Essex woman convicted and hanged for witchcraft in 1579
Elizabeth Francis, witch
English woman tried three times for witchcraft, hanged in 1579 for bewitchment and murder by witchcraft.
Agnes Waterhouse, witch
Elderly Essex woman convicted and hanged for witchcraft at Chelmsford in 1566.
Alison Pearson, witch
Scottish woman found guilty of sorcery, witchcraft and invoking the spirits of the Devil in 1588, then strangled and burned.
Pendle witches
The trials of the Pendle witches in 1612 are among the most famous witch trials in English history, and some of the best recorded of the 17th century.The Magic Circle
Oil painting by John William Waterhouse, one of his earliest depictions of a classical sorceress.
Margaretha Horn, witch
Woman arrested on suspicion of witchcraft in Rothenburg in 1652, who despite being tortured, vigorously protested her innocence
Margaret Aitken, the great witch of Balwearie
Pivotal figure in the great Scottish witchcraft panic of 1597.