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unusual facts about witch trial



Anna Zippel

Anna Zippel, also spelled as Sippel or Sippela (dead 29 April 1676), was an alleged Swedish witch, one of the most famous ones of the witch trial of Katarina in Stockholm during the Swedish witch mania "Det stora Oväsendet" ("The Great Noise") of 1668–1676; She was called "The Queen of Blockula", and together with her sister Brita Zippel the most famous witch in Swedish history, famed for her proud defense.

Emma Wilby

Wilby followed this work with The Visions of Isobel Gowdie: Magic, Witchcraft and Dark Shamanism in Seventeenth-Century Scotland (2010), which provided the first in-depth examination of the witch trial of Isobel Gowdie in 1662.

The Magicks of Megas-tu

The crew are transported into Salem during the middle of a witch trial where Lucien is the creature placed on trial by the Megans.


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Doruchów witch trial

Modern Polish historians - such as Janusz Tazbir - have, however, questioned whether the Doruchów witch trial really took place in 1775, whether it happened as described, and whether it had the claimed effect on the law.

Flowing Wells Witch Trial

The Flowing Wells Witch Trial was a series of events that resulted in the 1971 firing of Ann Stewart, a tenured teacher, by the Flowing Wells Unified School District under charges that she claimed to be a witch and taught witchcraft to her students.

Katharina Paldauf

Katharina Paldauf (born about 1625 in Fürstenfeld; died probably 23 September 1675), born Fondell, was the wife of the keeper of the Riegersburg Castle and the most prominent victim of the Great Witch trial of Feldbach (1673–1675).

Witch trial of Fuersteneck

The town of Fuersteneck, near Grafenau in Bavaria, Germany, was the location of a witch trial in 1703.