#witchtrials — Public Fediverse posts
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Places and people from the Scottish Witchcraft Trials:
Helene Clerk in 1645 in North Leith.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q43390453
Survey of Scottish Witchcraft:
https://witches.shca.ed.ac.uk/index.cfm?fuseaction=home.accusedrecord&accusedref=A/EGD/173&search_string=lastname -
Places and people from the Scottish Witchcraft Trials:
Helene Clerk in 1645 in North Leith.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q43390453
Survey of Scottish Witchcraft:
https://witches.shca.ed.ac.uk/index.cfm?fuseaction=home.accusedrecord&accusedref=A/EGD/173&search_string=lastname -
Places and people from the Scottish Witchcraft Trials:
Helene Clerk in 1645 in North Leith.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q43390453
Survey of Scottish Witchcraft:
https://witches.shca.ed.ac.uk/index.cfm?fuseaction=home.accusedrecord&accusedref=A/EGD/173&search_string=lastname -
Places and people from the Scottish Witchcraft Trials:
Helene Clerk in 1645 in North Leith.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q43390453
Survey of Scottish Witchcraft:
https://witches.shca.ed.ac.uk/index.cfm?fuseaction=home.accusedrecord&accusedref=A/EGD/173&search_string=lastname -
Places and people from the Scottish Witchcraft Trials:
Helene Clerk in 1645 in North Leith.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q43390453
Survey of Scottish Witchcraft:
https://witches.shca.ed.ac.uk/index.cfm?fuseaction=home.accusedrecord&accusedref=A/EGD/173&search_string=lastname -
Places and people from the Scottish Witchcraft Trials:
Elizabeth Geddie in 1651 in Temple.
Also accused: Elizabeth Jonston.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q43395551
Survey of Scottish Witchcraft:
https://witches.shca.ed.ac.uk/index.cfm?fuseaction=home.accusedrecord&accusedref=A/JO/2722&search_string=lastname -
Places and people from the Scottish Witchcraft Trials:
Jonnet Buttar in 1700 in Kinloch.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q43393882
Survey of Scottish Witchcraft:
https://witches.shca.ed.ac.uk/index.cfm?fuseaction=home.accusedrecord&accusedref=A/EGD/1902&search_string=lastname -
Air For Petronella by Medusa Quartet
Photo by Artūras Kokorevas: https://www.pexels.com/photo/shadow-of-hands-on-the-wall-11360061/I went to see a cello player with my sister, Raphael Weinwroth-Brown one evening. I’ve seen him once before after my sister told me how amazing his music is. There was an opening quarter before his performance, Medusa, and their songs were beautiful as well.
One that stood out to me – and probably everyone there – is a song called ‘Air for Petronella’. Before playing this beautiful piece, they told us the meaning behind the song. It’s about an innocent girl who was tried as a witch in Ireland. She was completely innocent of the accusation and was the first person in Ireland to be burned at the stake for witchcraft in Ireland. She was accused due to being a follower of Dame Alice Kyteler who was charged for witchcraft – all of her associates were deemed guilty as well, including young Petronella. Kyteler fled for her life, leaving Petronella to be flogged and burned at the stake for the crime of “heresy”.
Saskia Tomkins composed this melancholically beautiful piece after reading about this true story. She couldn’t sleep one night, upset about the injustice toward an innocent girl, and wrote this song for the quartet.
https://youtu.be/LZzs3WJQUw8?si=OMCCA4lq_yxRZHl9
As they played the beautiful but sad song, almost everyone was in tears. It’s a deep sadness for Petronella herself, and for everyone who has been put to death for doing nothing wrong. Fanaticism has claimed many lives and shows cruelty to anyone who appears to be a threat to it.
It’s a sobering reminder of how many women (and some men) suffered throughout history for being too wise, too knowledgeable about science, for challenging current beliefs of the time, or simply being in the wrong place. This has been on my mind a lot since I saw this played live, and wanted to share it with you all.
Medusa is an independent quarter based out of Toronto. Go Canada and live music!
This song is a kind tribute to Petronella.
Ireland’s First Witching Burning
#BookReview #historicalFigures #history #independentMusic #MedusaQuartet #Music #musicRecs #Petronella #quartets #witchTrials #witchcraft #witches -
Places and people from the Scottish Witchcraft Trials:
Jonet Jack in 1637 in Banff.
Also accused: Margaret Livie.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q43396210
Survey of Scottish Witchcraft:
https://witches.shca.ed.ac.uk/index.cfm?fuseaction=home.accusedrecord&accusedref=A/LA/3178&search_string=lastname -
Places and people from the Scottish Witchcraft Trials:
Christiane Steill in 1649 in Borthwick.
Also accused: Agnes Forsyth, Margaret Admiston, Margaret Ritchie, James Dik, Margaret Hermiston, Margaret Adinstoun, Margaret Dick, Janet Gibb, Margaret Johnston, Robert Acreskine, John Haggon, Sara Leonard, James Hugo.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q43393943
Survey of Scottish Witchcraft:
https://witches.shca.ed.ac.uk/index.cfm?fuseaction=home.accusedrecord&accusedref=A/EGD/1949&search_string=lastname -
Places and people from the Scottish Witchcraft Trials:
Margaret Law in 1679 in Bonhard.
Also accused: Jean Ffoddin.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q43396024
Survey of Scottish Witchcraft:
https://witches.shca.ed.ac.uk/index.cfm?fuseaction=home.accusedrecord&accusedref=A/LA/2943&search_string=lastname -
Places and people from the Scottish Witchcraft Trials:
Henry Christian in 1710 in Reisgill.
Also accused: Ann Sutherland.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q43395960
Survey of Scottish Witchcraft:
https://witches.shca.ed.ac.uk/index.cfm?fuseaction=home.accusedrecord&accusedref=A/LA/2849&search_string=lastname -
Places and people from the Scottish Witchcraft Trials:
Bigs Flayer in 1649 in Carrington.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q43394007
Survey of Scottish Witchcraft:
https://witches.shca.ed.ac.uk/index.cfm?fuseaction=home.accusedrecord&accusedref=A/EGD/2021&search_string=lastname -
Places and people from the Scottish Witchcraft Trials:
John Macgregor in 1676 in Greenock.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q43393839
Survey of Scottish Witchcraft:
https://witches.shca.ed.ac.uk/index.cfm?fuseaction=home.accusedrecord&accusedref=A/EGD/1871&search_string=lastname -
The First Witch of Boston: A Novel "Margarets refusal to be anything other than her authentic self, rather than witchcraft, which truly sealed her fate" Sale: $4.99 to $2.49 Andrea Catalano Rating: 4.4/5 (25,521 Reviews) #HistoricalFiction #WitchTrials #LoveStory #Puritan #Boston #Books #BookSky
The First Witch of Boston: A N... -
Places and people from the Scottish Witchcraft Trials:
Mary Sommerveil in 1671 in Grange.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q43395091
Survey of Scottish Witchcraft:
https://witches.shca.ed.ac.uk/index.cfm?fuseaction=home.accusedrecord&accusedref=A/EGD/579&search_string=lastname -
Places and people from the Scottish Witchcraft Trials:
Jonet Irving in 1616 in Orkney Islands.
Also accused: Helen Wallas, Oliver Leask, Catherine Caray, Magnus Linday, Geillis Sclaitter, Agnes Scottie, Agnes Tulloch, Helen A Wallis.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q43394115
Survey of Scottish Witchcraft:
https://witches.shca.ed.ac.uk/index.cfm?fuseaction=home.accusedrecord&accusedref=A/EGD/2150&search_string=lastname -
Places and people from the Scottish Witchcraft Trials:
Jeane Buchane in 1644 in Cupar.
Also accused: Bessie Cuper.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q43394305
Survey of Scottish Witchcraft:
https://witches.shca.ed.ac.uk/index.cfm?fuseaction=home.accusedrecord&accusedref=A/EGD/2284&search_string=lastname -
#bookwyrm #30daybookchallenge - Day27 - Book with a Number in the Title - Witchcraft: a History in Thirteen Trials - Marion Gibson #nonfiction #nonfictionbooks #NonfictionNovember #witches #history #historymatters #WitchTrials #ttrpgpodcast #gamemastersbookclub #booksky #booktok #bookstagram https://www.k-squareproductions.com/gmbc
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The Principles that I Live By
Preamble To an ever increasing extent since the year of 2016, I have increasingly associated my lifestyle with intentional connections to the people who truly match my energy and vibe with me. Because of a history where I have aligned better with my chosen people, free from any societal constraints or pressures, up to a certain point where I have begun to receive warnings of trouble and gossip, I have increasingly realized that my personality might actually depend on a utopian communal […]https://novatopflex.wordpress.com/2025/10/05/the-principles-that-i-live-by/
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TIL: today is the 333rd anniversary of the last hangings of the #SalemMA #witchtrials
Via: Historic Boston's discussion tonight.
2 of the panelists descent from trial victims.
https://www.eventbrite.com/x/resistance-stopping-witch-hunts-part-ii-tickets-1492347273869?
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Dr Morna Fleming looks at Mollie Hunter’s THE THIRTEENTH MEMBER, a novel of witchcraft, alchemy, & treason set in late 16th-century #Scotland – presented at our 2021 Schools Conference
3/5
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oKHL58len-g
#Scottish #literature #Scotland #ChildrensLiterature #kidlit #YA #supernatural #WitchTrials #EarlyModern #history #historicalfiction #witchcraft #16thcentury
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@crk5 Trump is modelled on a real life Abigail Williams in The Crucible. The witch has become the Ecoterrorist with a heart of ICE. Trump confessed to being a Witch when he complained about being the victim of a witch hunt! #WitchTrials #HellOnEarth #EcocideOligarchs #NarcissistsSalem #RealPeople #LiarsLot #MobRule
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Finished #reading the fascinating #novella #TheDaylighGate, #author #JeanetteWinterson's retelling of the #PendleWitchTrials of 1612 in England, when 12 men + women were charged with the murders of 10 people by the use of #witchcraft. Winterson reimagines this world adding passion + magic to the sad + tragic events of that time.
Statue is #AliceNutter, the central character in Winterson's story
#novel #books #booklist #mybookshelf #readinglist #witches #witchtrials #livres #libros #bücher
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Henri Boguet’s Discours exécrable des Sorciers, published in 1602, was a notable witch-hunting manual that influenced legal procedures in witch trials, particularly in France and Switzerland. #Witchtrials #witches https://connectparanormal.net/2025/02/03/discours-execrable-des-sorciers-witch-trials-in-early-modern-france/
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Book Review: Magic Lessons by Alice Hoffman
#ReaderCommunity #ReadingCommunity #BookCommunity #Reading #Books #BookReview #Review #PracticalMagic #MagicLessons #Fantasy #Magic #Witch #WitchTrialshttp://georgelthomas.com/2024/11/15/book-review-magic-lessons-by-alice-hoffman/
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https://hearthis.at/emuziek/myfavwot/ #MastodonMusic #MastoMusic
#MastoRadio #Music #Musodon #StoryOff #ChelWhite #JonCrocker #TomWare #Telex #Borghesia #JeffandJaneHudson #Velodrome #LiquidG #ClickClick #AGrumH #CrashCourseInScience #VitaNoctis #DementiaPrecox #K7SS #CharlieandtheOscillator #RuthandMushy #WeBeEcho #18eOktober #AviadorDro #RichardBone #TestDept. #TonyCarey #Heaven17 #ViceVersa #CatRapesDog #TeknäküllerRaincoats #Somnambulist #AndréSzigethy #Trancetronic #WitchTrials -
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#MastoRadio #Music #Musodon #StoryOff #ChelWhite #JonCrocker #TomWare #Telex #Borghesia #JeffandJaneHudson #Velodrome #LiquidG #ClickClick #AGrumH #CrashCourseInScience #VitaNoctis #DementiaPrecox #K7SS #CharlieandtheOscillator #RuthandMushy #WeBeEcho #18eOktober #AviadorDro #RichardBone #TestDept. #TonyCarey #Heaven17 #ViceVersa #CatRapesDog #TeknäküllerRaincoats #Somnambulist #AndréSzigethy #Trancetronic #WitchTrials -
https://hearthis.at/emuziek/myfavwot/ #MastodonMusic #MastoMusic
#MastoRadio #Music #Musodon #StoryOff #ChelWhite #JonCrocker #TomWare #Telex #Borghesia #JeffandJaneHudson #Velodrome #LiquidG #ClickClick #AGrumH #CrashCourseInScience #VitaNoctis #DementiaPrecox #K7SS #CharlieandtheOscillator #RuthandMushy #WeBeEcho #18eOktober #AviadorDro #RichardBone #TestDept. #TonyCarey #Heaven17 #ViceVersa #CatRapesDog #TeknäküllerRaincoats #Somnambulist #AndréSzigethy #Trancetronic #WitchTrials -
https://hearthis.at/emuziek/myfavwot/ #MastodonMusic #MastoMusic
#MastoRadio #Music #Musodon #StoryOff #ChelWhite #JonCrocker #TomWare #Telex #Borghesia #JeffandJaneHudson #Velodrome #LiquidG #ClickClick #AGrumH #CrashCourseInScience #VitaNoctis #DementiaPrecox #K7SS #CharlieandtheOscillator #RuthandMushy #WeBeEcho #18eOktober #AviadorDro #RichardBone #TestDept. #TonyCarey #Heaven17 #ViceVersa #CatRapesDog #TeknäküllerRaincoats #Somnambulist #AndréSzigethy #Trancetronic #WitchTrials -
https://hearthis.at/emuziek/myfavwot/ #MastodonMusic #MastoMusic
#MastoRadio #Music #Musodon #StoryOff #ChelWhite #JonCrocker #TomWare #Telex #Borghesia #JeffandJaneHudson #Velodrome #LiquidG #ClickClick #AGrumH #CrashCourseInScience #VitaNoctis #DementiaPrecox #K7SS #CharlieandtheOscillator #RuthandMushy #WeBeEcho #18eOktober #AviadorDro #RichardBone #TestDept. #TonyCarey #Heaven17 #ViceVersa #CatRapesDog #TeknäküllerRaincoats #Somnambulist #AndréSzigethy #Trancetronic #WitchTrials -
@FlikeNoir Your paragraph about Helen Elliot provides more than the Scottish #WitchTrials database entry does
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I'm currently #reading An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States and it seems pretty much everything that is going on in the #US can be explained by what's in that #book
I'm learning about its #Calvinist heritage, the #ScotsIrish, how #colonialism relates to #WitchTrials, how #WhiteSupremacy has roots in #Christian theology.
And, of course, all of this is part of #British #History.
It's an insightful book.
