Category: Witches
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Five English Witch-Haunts: Witches & English Mythology
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English myth is a curious being. Compared to, say, that of Ancient Greece, which gives origin stories to real-life flora and fauna from across the world, our tales often involve more local variations. Nowhere is this clearer than in a huge sub-part of English myth: folklore, the traditional beliefs and…
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The Pendle Witch Trial of 1612
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At the assizes at Lancaster in the autumn of 1612, twenty persons, of whom sixteen were women of various ages, were committed for trial, and most of them tried for witchcraft. Their names were: Margaret Pearson was tried 1st for murder by witchcraft; 2nd for bewitching a neighbour; 3rd for bewitching…
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The Story of the Bell Witch
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“America’s Greatest Ghost Story” The Bell family homestead, the alleged “ground zero” of the Bell Witch haunting. Strange Occurrences Commence One day in 1817, John Bell was inspecting his corn field when he encountered a strange-looking animal sitting in the middle of a corn row. Shocked by the appearance of this…
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Whitewater Witches – Local Folklore and Legends
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Image by Enrique Meseguer from Pixabay Whitewater Wisconsin has a full list of creepy legends and folklore. The one that you hear first is about the Witches of Whitewater, but there was also a man named Morris Pratt who made an institute all about spiritualism and psychic subjects that may…
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The Bideford Witches – Devon
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Witchcraft didn’t happen in Britain like it did on the European continent. We didn’t have an inquisition actively searching for the emissaries of Satan. Instead, we relied on the good people of the England, Scotland and Wales to spot witches within their own communities and report the offenders to the…
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Witches, Monsters & Fairies in British Folklore
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A collection of articles related to witches, fairies and monsters in british folklore. Here you will find grouped together articles and features about witches, fairies and monsters in British folklore. The Pendle WitchesPerhaps the most notorious witch trial of the 16th Century. In the year 1612 at Lancaster gaol, ten…
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The Horrific History of Witch Trials in England
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In the 16th and 17th centuries suspicion of witchcraft was at its height. In England and other nations across Europe there were trials and executions of suspected witches, including in Oxford. Hundreds died in England as a result. THE BEGINNING The first law relating to witchcraft in England was not introduced until…
