The Samlesbury witches were three women from the Lancashire village of Samlesbury – Jane Southworth, Jennet Bierley, and Ellen Bierley – accused by a...

Samlesbury (/ˈsɑːmzbəri/ or locally /ˈsæmlzbri/) is a village and civil parish in South Ribble, Lancashire, England. Samlesbury Hall, a historic house...

August 1612, along with the Samlesbury witches and others, in a series of trials that have become known as the Lancashire witch trials. One was tried at...

Samlesbury Hall is a historic house in Samlesbury, Lancashire, England, six miles (10 km) east of Preston. It was built in 1325 by Gilbert de Southworth...

the twenty men and women accused – amongst them the Pendle witches and the Samlesbury witches – eleven were found guilty and subsequently hanged; one was...

Northamptonshire witch trials 1612 Samlesbury witches 1612 Witches of Belvoir 1619 Bury St Edmunds witch trials 1645, 1662, 1655, 1694 Alloa witches 1658 Bideford...

The Witches' Well is a monument to accused witches burned at the stake in Edinburgh, Scotland, and is the only one of its kind in the city. The memorial...

which an estimated 300 witches were tried and executed. In the year of Hopkins' death, 1647, he published The Discovery of Witches which directly cited...

centre of the Paisley witches trials, were in circulation at the time. Patrick Cowper, the local minister who was intolerant of witches, had read the pamphlets...

as Shakespearean plays' reflections of English folklore through their witches, fairies, folk medicine, marriage and funeral customs, superstitions, and...

recognise other witches by looking for a special mark in their eyes. In May 1597, she claimed to know of a convention of 2,300 witches in Atholl. As a...

garrison of Sluis to capitulate. 1612 – The "Samlesbury witches", three women from the Lancashire village of Samlesbury, England, are put on trial, accused of...

witches. There was said to be large number of witches of several sorts (social classes) who had dedicated themselves to the devil and had a witches mark...

of witches". The entry in his diary the following day describes a meeting with Colville when they discussed witches and he mentions "Park's witches". Brodie...

player Grace Sowerbutts, the principal witness at the trial of the Samlesbury witches in 1612 This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the...

eighteenth century many people questioned the reality of witchcraft. "Mary Hicks Witch of Huntingdon". Early Modern Medicine. 11 April 2018. Retrieved 30 October...

The Bute witches were six Scottish women accused of witchcraft and interrogated in the parish of Rothesay on Bute during the Great Scottish Witch Hunt of...

references to a fairy in statements given to interrogators by alleged witches were routinely changed to read devil or demon. At her trial in Kirkwall...

witches How trials of bad witches should be conducted and rules for the persecution, conviction and condemnation of witches in the course of justice....

Pannell Witch. The prequel, Becoming The Pannell Witch, was published in the same year. Johnson, Helen (31 October 2018). "The Yorkshire Witches: Mary Bateman...

to him on their first night. Samlesbury Hall in Samlesbury, England stands as a grim reminder of the Samlesbury witches trial when a Catholic priest who...

Rebecca Mason "Hubble bubble, toil and trouble: Scotland's dark past as a witch-hunting nation". HeraldScotland. 15 October 2017. Retrieved 8 March 2019...

History of Orkney, Birlinn, ISBN 978-1-84158-696-0 Willumsen, Liv Helene (2013), Witches of the North: Scotland and Finnmark, BRILL, ISBN 978-90-04-25292-9...

women were tried as witches, among them the Pendle witches and the Samlesbury witches, of whom eleven were found guilty and were hanged. The judges gave...

Kirkjuból witch trial was a witch trial that took place in Kirkjuból in 1656, in what is today Ísafjörður, in Iceland. It is the most famous witch trial in...

Lancaster, along with the Pendle and Samlesbury witches, on 20 August 1612 as result of the religiously fuelled witch-hunts in the era. In 1746 St Helens...

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Ireland United Kingdom Tullamore, Ireland – Charleville Castle Samlesbury, England – Samlesbury Hall July 23, 2008 (2008-07-23) N/A The team travels to Ireland...

2009 Central Library (Night 4 - Voices from the Grave) 14 January 2009 Samlesbury Hall (Night 5 - Dark Phantoms) Preston, Lancashire 15 January 2009 Bidston...

churchyard at St Anne's is the supposed burial place of a 17th-century alleged witch named Meg Shelton. Historically, Woodplumpton was in the ancient parish...