Anne Jefferies
Young Cornish servant girl endowed with the power to heal and prophetise after being visited by fairies
Dorothy Legh
Born Dorothy Egerton (1565–1639), also known as Dorothy Brereton, Lady of the Manor of Worsley, was a coal owner and benefactor of Ellenbrook Chapel near her home in Worsley, Lancashire.
Margaretha Horn, witch
Woman arrested on suspicion of witchcraft in Rothenburg in 1652, who despite being tortured, vigorously protested her innocence
There’s Nae Luck Aboot The Hoose
Song by Scottish poet Jean Adam (1704–1765), set to the music of “Up an’ Waur Them A’ ”.
Diana Beaumont
Eldest illegitimate daughter of Sir Thomas Wentworth of Bretton Hall near Wakefield in Yorkshire.
Statute of Silence 1581
Act of Parliament introducing a series of increasingly gruesome punishments for speaking or publishing anything that Queen Elizabeth I did not wish to hear.
Witch-Finding
Methods used to identify witches.
Gertrude Agnew
Biography of socialite Gertrude Vernon, Lady Agnew of Lochnaw, who gained prestige and notoriety from her portrait by artist John Singer Sargent.
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.