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England's Last Witch May Have Never Been Executed, All Because Of A Spelling Mistake

Every October, tales of hauntings and curses rise from the past, but this time, the ghost story isn’t fiction. According to ...

Salem’s witches were pardoned, but Britain’s weren’t. There’s now a movement to change that

While the women accused in the infamous Salem witch trials in colonial America have long since been pardoned, the convictions ...

Women accused of witchcraft highlighted in talk

Ruth Osborne was drowned by a mob of 5,000 people after being accused of witchcraft in 1751, a librarian says.

How did a witch's cauldron end up in a church?

In the shadowy nave of a small village church in Surrey sits a battered medieval cauldron - but how it came to be there is ...
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‘Witches marks’ and curses found carved into the walls of historic England manor

A set of markings known as “witches marks” have been discovered carved into the walls of a historic medieval manor in England. The "witches" or apotropaic marks — believed to protect against witches ...

The 'witches' of Dumbarton - tortured, executed and falsely accused

More than two dozen people in the town were accused and tortured in the belief that they were doing Satan's bidding.