CONFLICT: Christians and women perceived as witches
CAST AND CREW:The series of witch Trials that took place in europe during the 16th-17th centuries.
MAJOR PLAYERS
REASONS FOR INVOVLEMENT
Temperance Lloyd
Bideford witch trial
She was charged with witchcraft and killing other people.
Abigail williams
Salem Witch trials
She was one of the main accusers in the Salem Witch trials.Abigail gave formal testimony at 7 cases, and she was involved in as many as 17 capital cases.
Ramsele witch trial,
which took place in 1634, is one of the few known Swedish witch trials before the great witch mania of
1668 1676.In the year of 1634 a man and several women were put on trial
Torsåker witch trials
71 people: 6 men and 65 women were beheaded and then burned, all in a single day. It was the biggest single day witch trial in recorded world history.
MINOR PLAYERS
REASONS FOR INVOVLEMENT
Thomas Eastchurch
He overheard Lloyd confess about her being a witch while she in Bideford lock-up the previous day
Mary Ireson
Mary Ireson is one of the minor charactersof the Salem witch trials.
Malin Matsdotter
It is most likely that they were beheaded before they were burned, as no known witch in Sweden, with the exception of Malin Matsdotter, was burned alive during the rasele witch trial.
Laurentius Christophori Hornæus and Johannes Wattrangius
This began when Laurentius Christophori Hornæus of Ytterlännäs parish, was told by Johannes Wattrangius, of Torsåker parish, to investigate witchcraft in his parish also durig the torsaker wtch trial.
MINI-BIOGRAPHIES OF MAJOR PLAYERS
THE SALEM WITCH TRIALS
The Salem witch trials were a series of hearings before local magistrates followed by county court of trials to prosecute people accused of of witchcraft in Essex, Suffolk, and Middlesex between February 1692 and May 1693. The episode has been used in political rhetoric and popular literature . The dangers of religious extremism, false accusations, lapses in due process, and governmental intrusion on individual liberties. THE BIDEFORD WITCH TRIALS
The Bideford witch trial resulted in the last ever hangings for witchcraft in England. Temperance Lloyd, Mary Trembles and Susannah Edwards were tried in 1682 in the town of Bideford in Devon. Much of the evidence against them was hearsay, although there was a confession by Lloyd, which she did not fully recant even with her execution imminent.It is sometimes said that Alice Molland was the last person to be hanged for witchcraft in England; the only evidence for this comes from a single book, Side-lights on the Stuarts by J Inderwick; although Molland was sentenced to hang, there is no evidence that the sentence was carried out. RAMSELE WITCH TRIALS
The Ramsele witch trial, which took place in 1634, is one of the few known Swedish witch trials before the great witch mania of 1668-1676.In the year of 1634 a man and several women were put on trial in the city of Ramsele in Ångermanland in Norrland in Sweden. This was during a period of starvation, and they were accused of having stolen milk from their neighbors.The man was said to have stabbed a knife in a wall and, uttering "terrible prayers," milked the wall through the knife. It had been claimed that the women had used small animals, hares and undefined creatures to milk cattle in their neighbor's barns. The women were pointed out by Barbro Påvelsdotter from Sandviken, who was the first to be arrested, and confirmed to have been with her to Blockula. TORSAKER WITCH TRIALS
The Torsåker Witch Trials, the largest single witch-trial in Sweden, took place in Torsåker, a village in central Sweden, in 1675, towards the end of the great Swedish witch hunt of 1668 - 1676. In total, 71 people (6 men and 65 women, roughly a fifth of all women in the region) were beheaded and burned in a single day, one of the largest single mass killings of accused witches in recorded history.
CONFLICT: Christians and women perceived as witches
CAST AND CREW:The series of witch Trials that took place in europe during the 16th-17th centuries.
MAJOR PLAYERS
REASONS FOR INVOVLEMENT
Bideford witch trial
Salem Witch trials
1668 1676.In the year of 1634 a man and several women were put on trial
MINOR PLAYERS
REASONS FOR INVOVLEMENT
MINI-BIOGRAPHIES OF MAJOR PLAYERS
THE SALEM WITCH TRIALS
The Salem witch trials were a series of hearings before local magistrates followed by county court of trials to prosecute people accused of of witchcraft in Essex, Suffolk, and Middlesex between February 1692 and May 1693. The episode has been used in political rhetoric and popular literature . The dangers of religious extremism, false accusations, lapses in due process, and governmental intrusion on individual liberties.
THE BIDEFORD WITCH TRIALS
The Bideford witch trial resulted in the last ever hangings for witchcraft in England. Temperance Lloyd, Mary Trembles and Susannah Edwards were tried in 1682 in the town of Bideford in Devon. Much of the evidence against them was hearsay, although there was a confession by Lloyd, which she did not fully recant even with her execution imminent.It is sometimes said that Alice Molland was the last person to be hanged for witchcraft in England; the only evidence for this comes from a single book, Side-lights on the Stuarts by J Inderwick; although Molland was sentenced to hang, there is no evidence that the sentence was carried out.
RAMSELE WITCH TRIALS
The Ramsele witch trial, which took place in 1634, is one of the few known Swedish witch trials before the great witch mania of 1668-1676.In the year of 1634 a man and several women were put on trial in the city of Ramsele in Ångermanland in Norrland in Sweden. This was during a period of starvation, and they were accused of having stolen milk from their neighbors.The man was said to have stabbed a knife in a wall and, uttering "terrible prayers," milked the wall through the knife. It had been claimed that the women had used small animals, hares and undefined creatures to milk cattle in their neighbor's barns. The women were pointed out by Barbro Påvelsdotter from Sandviken, who was the first to be arrested, and confirmed to have been with her to Blockula.
TORSAKER WITCH TRIALS
The Torsåker Witch Trials, the largest single witch-trial in Sweden, took place in Torsåker, a village in central Sweden, in 1675, towards the end of the great Swedish witch hunt of 1668 - 1676. In total, 71 people (6 men and 65 women, roughly a fifth of all women in the region) were beheaded and burned in a single day, one of the largest single mass killings of accused witches in recorded history.
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