Witches of the UK

[NEILKE]

hi again finder a programme was made a few years ago at maningtree broadcast live over 3 nights if you come across it it was rubbish the names they came up with were all true a quick search on line and all this can be found but putting webcams in a cemertry built 100 years or more after the events just doesn,t add up.theres a good documentry by rory mcgrarth called bloody brittain it will be on youtube it is well worth having a look at.
neil

[Morganllan]

Here's a blog on Welsh witches:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/waleshistory/2010/03/welsh_witches.html

I once saw a group of people dressed in white in a remote area of West Carmarthenshire very late at night but didn't stop to ask why...

and there's a certain Pembrokeshire village with a resident wart charmer. Doesn't take money otherwise it won't work.

[billramp]

Hi
Our local 'witch' in Stoke on Trent was Molly Leigh....the first link shows a picture of her cottage which has now been demolished and the second link has on it a photo of her grave which, as the story goes, was turned around in the middle of the night so that instead of being east-west it was north-south......must have taken quite a few people to do it....fascinating story and well known around here...

Good hunting!!

Bill

http://www.mysteriousbritain.co.uk/england/staffordshire/occult/molly-leigh.html

http://www.bbc.co.uk/stoke/content/articles/2006/03/03/molly_leigh_witch_profile_feature.shtml

[Witch Finder]

Hello Bill thanks for that . Strangely dear old Molly is how I started this quest, The Witch with the Crow ( Blackbird). I know quite a lot about Molly as  my Daughter Lives close to Burslem. I been to see her Grave at St John the Baptist Church, Her Grave pointing the opposite way to normal Christian burials North to South.
I'm always wanting to know more though. David.

[Siamese Girl]

The early parish registers of Boreham in Essex are mixed with C for christening B for burial  and M for marriage.

In 1593 one begins H, which I think stands for hanging.

H Mother Haven (Haven inserted above the line) suffered at Boreham for Witchcraft the same day. (the 29th July)

Images of the  registers are online http://seax.essexcc.gov.uk/displayParishContents.asp?selAlphabet=B&selParish=610&selChurch=611

There is something about her here http://www.essexhistory.co.uk/id2.html

Also from the SEAX catalogue:

T/A 418/58/23
Dates of Creation 10 April 1593
Scope and Content Indictment of Agnes Haven of BOREHAM spinster, bewitched John Brett, so that he was grievously afflicted in divers parts of the body. Pleads not guilty; guilty. [ASS 35/35/2/23]
 



Too many poor (usually) women were either hanged for witchcraft in Essex or died in prison awaiting their trial long before Mathew Hopkins arrived on the scene.

Carole

[Shropshire Lass]

and there's a certain Pembrokeshire village with a resident wart charmer. Doesn't take money otherwise it won't work.

One of my Welsh aunts does this - in fact, she has to pay you for your warts, though 1p each is enough.  Works every time!

[liscoole]

Dont forget the Irish Witches:

Mary Dunbar, Islandmagee

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islandmagee_witch_trial

and also Mary Butters, Carnmoney

http://www.sacred-texts.com/pag/iwd/iwd10.htm

[Witch Finder]

Dont forget the Irish Witches:

Mary Dunbar, Islandmagee

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islandmagee_witch_trial

and also Mary Butters, Carnmoney

http://www.sacred-texts.com/pag/iwd/iwd10.htm

Thank you liscoole. The Islandmagee Trial I have heard of, but not The Mary Butters  Carmoney case  This case is slightly to late for me I'm trying to keep it to 16th-18th century's. Though the story and ballad was very intresting, and I've taken notes. David.

[Greensleeves]

One of the rules of The Craft, as it is known, is secrecy;   so if someone tells you he or she is a witch, the chances are that they are not one.