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My Good Babushka

(2,710 posts) Mon Jun 30, 2014, 06:40 AM Jun 2014

Bideford Witch Trials

The Bideford Witch Trial in 1682 resulted in the last (well-publicized) hangings for witchcraft in England. The accused witches were Temperance Lloyd, Mary Trembles and Susannah Edwards.

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Bideford Witch Trials (Original Post) My Good Babushka Jun 2014 OP

The last trial for witchcraft in the UK was Helen Duncan intaglio Jun 2014 #1

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1. The last trial for witchcraft in the UK was Helen Duncan

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Mon Jun 30, 2014, 07:57 AM

Jun 2014

She was imprisoned under the Witchcraft Act in 1944 - Helen Duncan in Wikipedia

The deaths under witchcraft laws in the Great Britain were the Paisley Witches in 1694

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