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Dummy, the Witch of Sible Hedingham (c. 1788 – 4 September 1863) was the pseudonym of an unidentified elderly man who was one of the last people to be...

Sible Hedingham was the site of one of the last 19th-century witchcraft accusations in England. The victim is now known as "Dummy, the Witch of Sible Hedingham"...

any of several people with the nickname Dummy, the Witch of Sible Hedingham (c. 1788–1863), one of the last people to be accused of being a witch in England...

The Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn (Latin: Ordo Hermeticus Aurorae Aureae), more commonly the Golden Dawn (Aurora Aurea), was a secret society devoted...

(1836), and Dummy, the Witch of Sible Hedingham in England (1863). In France, there was sporadic violence and there was even murder in the 1830s, with one...

poet, was apprenticed to a shopkeeper and married here. Dummy, the Witch of Sible Hedingham (c. 1788 – 1863), a deaf-mute charged with witchcraft, was...

law into their own hands when they suspected witchcraft. Dummy, the Witch of Sible Hedingham Anna Klemens Barbara Zdunk Jóźwiak, Krzysztof (15 October...

without the use of violent torture, provides one of the most comprehensive insights into European witchcraft folklore at the end of the era of witch-hunts...

The Witches' Well is a monument to accused witches burned at the stake in Edinburgh, Scotland, and is the only one of its kind in the city. The memorial...

of the "wise one", and Klemens died of the abuse. The cunning woman was executed for the murder and the men were banished. Dummy, the Witch of Sible Hedingham...

as the Great Witch of Balwearie, was an important figure in the great Scottish witchcraft panic of 1597 as her actions effectively led to an end of that...

outfielder Dummy Taylor (1875–1958), American baseball pitcher Earle Taylor (1891–1955), American college football player Dummy, the Witch of Sible Hedingham (c...

murder and executed. The last lynching for witchcraft in Denmark was the case of Anna Klemens in 1800. Dummy, the Witch of Sible Hedingham, similar case in...

the early eighteenth century many people questioned the reality of witchcraft. "Mary Hicks Witch of Huntingdon". Early Modern Medicine. 11 April 2018....

accused of, and executed for, witchcraft in 1603. Mary lived in Ledston, West Yorkshire where she had a reputation as a cunning woman or witch. She was...

The 1594 trial of alleged witch Allison Balfour or Margaret Balfour is one of the most frequently cited Scottish witchcraft cases. Balfour lived in the...

witch. She was born in Caithness but as a child spent time with relatives on an island in Lochaber prior to travelling to the mainland of Orkney. The...

Press, ISBN 978-0748621576 Hutton, Ronald (2017), The Witch: A History of Fear, from Ancient Times to the Present, Yale University Press, ISBN 978-0-300-22904-2...

Essex cunning folk were associated with witchcraft, notably in the village of Sible Hedingham, where there lived an elderly French cunning man who had previously...