• Witches of Warboys were Alice Samuel and her family, who were accused of, and executed for witchcraft between 1589 and 1593 in the village of Warboys...
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    A witch-hunt, or a witch purge, is a search for people who have been labeled witches or a search for evidence of witchcraft. Practicing evil spells or...
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    Warbois, then, finally, Warboys. Warboys was listed in the Domesday Book in the Hundred of Hurstingstone in Huntingdonshire; the name of the settlement was...
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    Salem Witch Trials. Marshall Cavendish. 2008, pg. 15 Stack, p. 20 Guiley, Rosemary Ellen (2008). "Lemp, Rebecca (d. 1590)". The Encyclopedia of Witches, Witchcraft...
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  • raising the issue of succession to the throne in Parliament. 6 April – Witches of Warboys: Alice, John and Agnes Samuel found guilty of witchcraft and hanged...
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    Daemonologie (category Witch hunter manuals)
    which an estimated 300 witches were tried and executed. In the year of Hopkins' death, 1647, he published The Discovery of Witches which directly cited...
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    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...
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    The Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn (Latin: Ordo Hermeticus Aurorae Aureae), more commonly the Golden Dawn (Aurora Aurea), was a secret society devoted...
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    Jacqueline (2005). The Lore of the Land: A Guide to England's Legends, from Spring-heeled Jack to the Witches of Warboys. Penguin Books. pp. 687–688....
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    Westwood, Jennifer (2006). The lore of the land: a guide to England's legends, from Spring-heeled Jack to the Witches of Warboys. London: Penguin. ISBN 0141021039...
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