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Student-led project mapping global witchcraft memorials at Cardiff University. @cuhistarchrel.bsky.social If you have any suggestions or questions please contact us at: [email protected].
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📢 Today, we want to share our current map with you! If you notice anything we might have missed, please contact us at [email protected] along with any sources. In the replies, we will list the criteria for entries as well as a guide to the colour-coding.

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Check out the second blog from the brilliant @witchmapproject.bsky.social student interns. Really interesting to see some of the conclusions of their research! #hextag #earlymodern #medievalsky #folklorefriday
📢Good morning and long time no see! Our second blog post about the Witch Map Project has just been uploaded. Please consider taking a look if you're interested in learning more about the conclusions we drew from our research.

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From Orkney to Odisha, and Beyond: The Witch Map Project and Global Witchcraft Memorials (Abigail Heneghan and Gabriel Hyde)
Cardiff students reflecting on witches, saints, wonders and more.
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📢Good morning and long time no see! Our second blog post about the Witch Map Project has just been uploaded. Please consider taking a look if you're interested in learning more about the conclusions we drew from our research.

blogs.cardiff.ac.uk/cardiff-supe...
From Orkney to Odisha, and Beyond: The Witch Map Project and Global Witchcraft Memorials (Abigail Heneghan and Gabriel Hyde)
Cardiff students reflecting on witches, saints, wonders and more.
blogs.cardiff.ac.uk
The memorial is a semi-circular wall, with the 19 victims’ names inscribed in the stones. An oak tree is in the centre. It was designed by Martha Lyon, and dedicated on July 19th 2017, the anniversary of the executions of Sarah Good, Elizabeth Howe, Susannah Martin, Rebecca Nurse, and Sarah Wildes.
☀️Memorial of the Day (MOTD): The Proctor’s Ledge Memorial in Salem, USA.

Proctor’s Ledge was first identified as a possible site for the 1692 Salem executions in 1921 by Sidney Perley, but this wasn’t confirmed until January 2016 through the work of a team of researchers.
We will check in with our emails from time to time, so if you notice something we've missed on the map you can still contact us at [email protected].

Another thank you to @webstermedieval.bsky.social and @janmachielsen.bsky.social for being great supervisors and helping us so much!
📢We would like to thank all 100 of you who have supported our project for the past few weeks. Sadly, today is the last day that it will be active, but this isn't the end of us yet! Another blog post will go up in a week's time that we'll let you know about, and our map will remain available.
☀️Good morning everyone!

The first of two posts about the Witch Map Project is up on the Cardiff Supernatural blog. If you're interested in learning a little more about our project, please give it a read!

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Hex Marks the Spot: Mapping Witch Trials, Memory, and Meaning (Abigail Heneghan and Gabriel Hyde)
Cardiff students reflecting on witches, saints, wonders and more.
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Her statue, made by descendant Marianne Lüdick in 1988, stands beside Jesuit Friedrich Spee’s, who condemned witch trials in 1631. Henot was officially rehabilitated in 2011.

Katharina also has a street and a school named after her. The 1989 movie ‘Die Hexe von Köln’ details her life. 🎥
☀️Memorial of the Day (MOTD): Katharina Henot Memorial in Cologne, Germany.

Outside Cologne’s town hall stands a statue of Katharina Henot, Germany’s first female postmaster, executed as a witch in 1627. Wealthy and influential, she never confessed under torture but was still put to death.
The writing on the sculpture reads “Sculpture in honour of Thomassa Roig. In homage of the victims of gender-based violence in the past, present, and future." The square and sculpture opened in November 2021 as part of World Day of Violence Against Women.

#earlymodern #witchtrials #medievalsky
☀️Memorial of the Day (MOTD): Thomassa Roig Square in Corbins, Catalonia (Spain).

Thomassa Roig was a resident of Corbins who was executed for witchcraft in 1627. The square includes a sculpture which is dedicated to her and all women subject to violence, which was created by Elisenda Franquet.
Local lore says Grissel had a son, a sailor. When he returned and saw the smoke rising over Dundee from her execution, he turned back and never came home again. ⛵
On November 11, 1669, Grissel was found guilty. She was strangled and then burned at the stake. If you follow Peter Street to Seagate, you’ll come to a black “X” laid in cobblestones. That marks the exact place of her execution.
☀️Memorial of the Day (MOTD): Grissel Jaffray Memorial in Dundee, Scotland.

At the entrance to Peter Street, tiled cones of water and fire frame a plaque for Grissel Jaffray. A 17th-century spaewife, she was accused of witchcraft; only her accusers’ names and execution method are still recorded.
📢Interested in taking a look at our map? Follow the link in the quoted post to see a read-only version!
📢 Today, we want to share our current map with you! If you notice anything we might have missed, please contact us at [email protected] along with any sources. In the replies, we will list the criteria for entries as well as a guide to the colour-coding.

www.google.com/maps/d/u/1/e...
Witchcraft memorials public - Google My Maps
Witchcraft memorials public
www.google.com
She is depicted with a raccoon and carrying a basket of rosemary, which represents her love for animals and nursing ability. The statue was created by Robert G. Cunningham in 2007, located by Sentara Bayside Hospital, near where she was imprisoned. There is also a plaque describing her trial.
☀️Memorial of the Day (MOTD): The Grace Sherwood Statue in Virginia, USA.

Grace Sherwood was a midwife and the last person to be convicted of witchcraft in Virginia in 1706, although she was never executed. Instead she was imprisoned and lived until age 80.