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Doug-a-boo McCrae
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An important contribution toward answering the question 'Were witches healers?' Excerpt from @magicnotwitches.bsky.social's "Cunning Folk" (2024).

#witch #witches #witchtrials
In my research I have found reference to more than 380 service magicians practising in England between 1542 and 1670, many of whom were healers and midwives, diviners and goods-finders. Of these, fewer than five were accused of malevolent witchcraft, and only one was eventually found guilty and executed. I’m sure there are other cases, but even so, the proportions are striking, belying the modern assumption that the witch trials of early modern England targeted healers and other women who professed cunning skills. For most people at the time, there was a difference between the useful magic generally being practised and sold by cunning folk and the harmful, vindictive curses dealt out by witches.
October 15, 2025 at 9:51 PM Everybody can reply
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sownow.bsky.social
The Story of Writing
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On this day in 1692, the Governor of Massachusetts Bay ended the Salem witch trials.
#History #OTD #MassHysteria #WitchTrials
After negotiating a peace agreement with the Abenaki Tribe, Governor William Phips learned that the special court he established in Salem had executed 20 people. Allegations of witchcraft were spreading. It is possible, but not clear if Phips’ wife was one of the accused. Phips issued a letter on this day that ended the court in Salem and created a new tribunal that would not consider spectral evidence. This was the term for testimony from witnesses who claimed they saw the spirit or specter of accused witches and that these visions compelled the witnesses to break with religious or law-abiding behavior. It was the court’s admission of this type of testimony that led to the executions. If the judges had not permitted spectral evidence, the hysteria that led to accusations of witchcraft would have remained allegations. A scene of the trials in Salem Village, Massachusetts Bay Colony, hand-colored engraving. Image source: Britannica
October 12, 2025 at 12:45 PM Everybody can reply
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restingwitches.bsky.social
Sarah Jack
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#witchtrials #wos #newbook #witchesofscotland #podcast @witchhunt.bsky.social @thethingaboutsalem.bsky.social #endwitchhunts
October 1, 2025 at 12:52 AM Everybody can reply
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House of Leaves Publishing
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On this day in 1692, farmer Giles Corey met a cruel end in Salem, Massachusetts.

Our latest Hex Libris entry explores how his terrible fate may have marked a turning point in Puritan public opinion:
www.holpublishing.com/hex-libris/m...

#hexlibris #blog #horrorsky #writersky #salem #witchtrials
Image: Black background with Hex Libris logo in grey. Text: More Weight: The Pressing of Giles Corey.
September 19, 2025 at 3:41 PM Everybody can reply
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Mari Ellis Dunning 🖋️
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Want to research the witch trials of Wales? Where better to start than the National Library?

#archives #witchtrials #wales #witches #writing #writingsky
September 11, 2025 at 5:25 PM Everybody can reply
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GossamerWight Literary Magazine
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We're looking forward to ordering our copy! 👀 #Welsh #Witches #WitchTrials #Novel #BookSky
mariellisdunning.bsky.social Mari Ellis Dunning 🖋️ @mariellisdunning.bsky.social · Sep 8
When I say this review made me tear up 🥺

Thanks so so much Joanne at LoveReading for seeing exactly what I wanted to convey with Witsh, and for making it a Star Book & Book of the Month!! ✨🎉

www.lovereading.co.uk/book/9781916...

#WritingSky #BookSky #BooksofBluesky #WitchTrials #Witches
September 10, 2025 at 11:24 AM Everybody can reply
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Raphael Hythloday
@eshuelegbara.bsky.social
🗓 Sept 22, 1692
The last executions of the Salem witch trials.
Eight hanged. No witches among them.

Bittersweet history.
Fear dressed up as justice.
A warning still echoing.

#Salem #WitchTrials #ThisDayInHistory #ReadSchiff
September 22, 2025 at 11:20 AM Everybody can reply
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Truthlytics
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Hailstorms and Witch Hunts in Feldbach

Southeastern Styria, particularly the district of Feldbach, has long been known for its extreme, hyper-localized hailstorms. #cloudseeding #feldbach #hail #witchtrials #witches
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March 5, 2025 at 5:26 PM Everybody can reply
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Witch Map Project
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Sources:

www.vpm.org/news/2022-10...

www.atlasobscura.com/places/the-w...

vbmuseums.org/blog/grace-s...

#witchtrials #earlymodern #medievalsky #witchcraft
The witching of the Virginia midwife: The state’s thorny history with the profession
Midwifery was criminalized in the commonwealth until 2005.
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July 28, 2025 at 9:26 AM Everybody can reply
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thejoyofnature.bsky.social
Cooper 🕊️ | 🌗
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400 years later, America moves to exonerate women who perished at hands of Christian fascists.
#NewEngland #WitchTrials #Paganism #church
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Lawmaker seeks to exonerate the victims of the less known Maryland Witch Trials
Like similar efforts in Massachusetts, Connecticut, and Scotland, a legislator in Maryland is introducing a bill to exonerate the victims of the state's lesser-known witchcraft trials.
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January 15, 2025 at 2:20 PM Everybody can reply
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The Wisdom Pedlars, Antiquarian Book Auctions
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Ex libris, Friedrich Forner, vicar general of Bamberg Cathedral, during Bamberg witch trials, he played a leading role in biggest mass trials and mass executions ever seen in Europe, and one of the biggest witch trials in history.

#Rarebooks #Plantin #Bible #witchtrials #bookauction bit.ly/46djg60
July 17, 2025 at 8:03 AM Everybody can reply
witchmapproject.bsky.social
Witch Map Project
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Sources: agricolaverkko.fi/keskustelu/v...

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Oulussa paljastettiin noitavainojen uhrien muistomerkki - Agricolan uutis- ja keskustelufoorumit
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July 19, 2025 at 11:49 AM Everybody can reply
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dougmccrae.bsky.social
Doug-a-boo McCrae
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Body horror in the early modern witch trials. The first excerpt is from Robin Briggs' "Witches & Neighbours" (1996), the second from Malcolm Gaskill's "Witchfinders: A Seventeenth-Century English Tragedy" (2005). #witch #witches #witchtrials #horror
Mongenot's wife had at first tried to keep her out and now believed she was bewitched, because several rat-sized animals seemed to be running about inside her body. But when 'Sack & Sugar' finally arrived, it seemed to be no more than a harmless rabbit. None the less, Clarke assured Stearne he was lucky it had not leapt onto his face, squeezed itself down his throat, and deposited 'a feast of Toades' in his belly.
December 23, 2024 at 1:48 AM Everybody can reply
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heathenbotanicals.bsky.social
Heathen Botanicals 🇺🇦 🏴
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Season Two: LGBTQIA+ Rights

Malleus Maleficarum & Project 2025

Sharing Insight & Empowerment!
#SocialJustice #ProtectTransRights #MalleusMaleficarum #HistoricalMisogyny #WitchTrials #DarkHistory #Project2025 #ActivismMatters #EqualityMovement #PoliticalCommentary #QueerActivism #KnowYourHistory
January 12, 2025 at 9:44 PM Everybody can reply
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filiacharity.bsky.social
FiLiA
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'Women who are unmarried, successful, or otherwise do not conform to stereotypical gender roles are more likely to be targeted, as are widowed women who do not have an adult son'

#Ghana #Africa #witchtrials #modernwitchtrials

www.amnesty.org/en/documents...
Ghana: Branded for life: how witchcraft accusations lead to human rights violations of hundreds of women in north Ghana - Amnesty International
Human rights abuses linked to witchcraft accusations are recurrent in the north of Ghana and can lead to death. Despite the prevalence of the incidents, the cases are rarely reported and investigated....
www.amnesty.org
April 15, 2025 at 7:50 AM Everybody can reply
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bfworld.bsky.social
Ben Franklin's World
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Witchcraft wasn’t just superstition—it was a response to fear and uncertainty. 🔮

In this episode, Malcolm Gaskill uncovers a forgotten witch trial and the everyday tensions that fueled it.

🎧 benfranklinsworld.com/370

#WitchTrials #VastEarlyAmerica #History #Religion
July 3, 2025 at 4:36 PM Everybody can reply
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Still Dead Illustrations
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Day 8: Lightning Lad (Lass in this case) I’ve been wanting to draw Aggie forever ⚡️🖤
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October 8, 2025 at 12:52 PM Everybody can reply
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Author J.K Divia
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Happy release day to me

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January 31, 2025 at 1:12 PM Everybody can reply
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Dr Melanie O'Brien
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Marginalised outsiders: why #witchTrials help us understand Making a Murderer. #fairTrial #history https://theconversation.com/marginalised-outsiders-why-witch-trials-help-us-understand-making-a-murderer-53155
Marginalised outsiders: why witch trials help us understa...
Marginalised outsiders, community conflict and a bad repu...
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December 7, 2024 at 12:36 AM Everybody can reply
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Kelly D.
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This is a great step of recognition for victims of the #WitchTrials
February 20, 2025 at 7:16 PM Everybody can reply
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witchmapproject.bsky.social
Witch Map Project
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The museum, which opened in 2000, is run by Strandagaldur, a non-profit organisation. It aims to share the history and culture of Strandir, a remote coastal region in Iceland where the museum is located.

#earlymodern #witchtrials #medievalsky #witchcraft
An image of the upper floor exhibit of the museum, which focuses on the history of the witch hunts in Iceland.
July 25, 2025 at 9:41 AM Everybody can reply
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bfworld.bsky.social
Ben Franklin's World
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Before Salem, fear of witches haunted early New England. 🕯️⚖️

In this episode, Malcolm Gaskill explores a 1650s witch trial in Springfield, Massachusetts—and what it reveals about fear, faith, and community.

🎧 benfranklinsworld.com/370

#WitchTrials #VastEarlyAmerica #History
October 18, 2025 at 4:36 PM Everybody can reply
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Edgewater Presbyterian Church
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Scotland issued a new tartan specific for the victims of historic witch trials at the hands of our Presbyterian Church of Scotland forefathers, Scottish villages and townships, and the Scottish monarchy

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February 23, 2025 at 12:09 AM Everybody can reply
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