"Many were condemned on flimsy evidence, such as owning a black cat or brewing homemade remedies."
what would GOOD evidence for witchcraft be??
― You've Got to Pick Up Every Stitch (tracerhand), Saturday, 30 October 2004 01:05 (twenty-one years ago)
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― Bumfluff, Saturday, 30 October 2004 19:30 (twenty-one years ago)
Is this a euphemism?
Anyway...
Meeting Scottish noblemen in the middle of the night to give them cryptic and misleading prophecies.
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― LE CHUCK!™ (ex machina), Sunday, 31 October 2004 04:31 (twenty-one years ago)
Asked this by a French friend and couldn't think of anyone aside from the Witches of Pendle: who are the most well known witches in UK popular culture/history?
― djh, Thursday, 5 December 2013 18:20 (twelve years ago)
there's the witch that lives in Wookey Hole.
― woof, Thursday, 5 December 2013 18:27 (twelve years ago)
& this isn't an answer, but I am quite excited to have found what seems to be a data browser thing for Early Modern witch records. Though it's a bit... confusing.
― woof, Thursday, 5 December 2013 18:36 (twelve years ago)
probably the one who was called in to unhex Southampton's new stadium
― veneer timber (imago), Thursday, 5 December 2013 18:39 (twelve years ago)
Mother Shipton - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mother_Shipton
― rp boo bryson (NickB), Thursday, 5 December 2013 18:43 (twelve years ago)
http://www.fancydress.com/content/Witch_List
― Le passé, non seulement n'est pas fugace, il reste sur place (Michael White), Thursday, 5 December 2013 18:52 (twelve years ago)
not sure I can really back this up but I think there's an English prophetess tradition that's distinct from witching. Going to take a look at Religion and the Decline of Magic, that should tell me.
Was talking about the last witch trials at work the other day - didn't know details of the seances that messed with classified info, slightly absurd, slightly gross.
― woof, Thursday, 5 December 2013 18:57 (twelve years ago)
This guy is probably one of the most famous modern day witches:
Alex Sanders - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Sanders_%28Wiccan%29
― rp boo bryson (NickB), Thursday, 5 December 2013 19:09 (twelve years ago)
http://alltacailleach.files.wordpress.com/2011/12/alex-and-maxine-sanders-ritual1.jpghttp://manxwytch.files.wordpress.com/2012/02/alex-sanders-color.jpghttp://www.bewicked.be/afbeeldingen/Janet/sanders.gif
― rp boo bryson (NickB), Thursday, 5 December 2013 19:10 (twelve years ago)
The North Berwick witches are quite famous, I think.
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agnes_Sampson
― Ramnaresh Samhain (ShariVari), Thursday, 5 December 2013 21:54 (twelve years ago)
He married a co-worker, nineteen-year-old Doreen Stretton, in 1948 when he was 22, using the name Alexander O Sanders. They had two children, Paul and Janice.[2] Alex wanted more children but Doreen didn't; she also disapproved of the supernatural.[5] The marriage quickly deteriorated and Doreen took the children and left Sanders when he was 26. According to Maxine, Alex was grief-stricken and cursed Doreen with fertility; she re-married and had three sets of twins.[5]
― veneer timber (imago), Thursday, 5 December 2013 21:59 (twelve years ago)
best curse
Ouch!
― Le passé, non seulement n'est pas fugace, il reste sur place (Michael White), Thursday, 5 December 2013 22:30 (twelve years ago)
why do witches always have such long beautiful hair?!
― sweat pea (La Lechera), Thursday, 5 December 2013 22:36 (twelve years ago)