Witch of Endor
Female sorcerer who appears in the Old Testament (1 Samuel 28:3–25).
Richard Graham
Sorcerer, necromancer and wizard. Executed on the last day of February 1592 as part of the North Berwick witch trials, he was an associate of Francis Stewart, fifth Earl of Bothwell.
Barbara Napier, witch
Woman accused of witchcraft and conspiracy to murder during the North Berwick witch trials.
Jane Wenham
Last person to be condemned to death for witchcraft in an English court, when she was found guilty at Hertford in 1712.
Geillis Duncan, witch
Young Scottish maidservant suspected of witchcraft by her employer in November 1590. After being tortured, the initial testimony she gave led to the start of the North Berwick witch trials.
Alice Nutter
One of the 11 men and women found guilty of causing harm by witchcraft in the Pendle witch trials of 1612, unique among the accused in being a respectable wealthy widow.Jean Maxwell, sorceress
Scottish cunning woman convicted of pretending to practise witchcraft
Bute witches
Six Scottish women accused of witchcraft on Bute during the Great Scottish Witch Hunt of 1661–1662.
Paisley witches
Also known as the Bargarran witches or the Renfrewshire witches, were tried in Paisley, Renfrewshire, central Scotland, in 1697.
Samlesbury witches
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.