ID | Short Description | Date | City | Parish | Current County | Old county | Nation |
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43 | Joan Upney confesses to sending her familiar toad to pinch and suck at John Harrolde's wife until she died. (8)
Appears in:
Anonymous. The Apprehension and Confession of Three Notorious Witches. London: 1589, 8
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1584 | East London | Dagenham | Essex | Essex | England |
485 | Margaret Hooper allegedly acts as though bewitched. She comes home one day in a bad mood, speaking "much ildle talk," and grows increasingly irate when no one, especially her husband, will listen to her.(2)
Appears in:
Anonymous. A True and Most Dreadfull Discourse of a Woman Possessed with the Deuill who in the Likenesse of a Headlesse Beare Fetched her out of her Bedd. London: 1584, 2
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1584 | Durham | Durham | Dvrham | England | |
486 | Margaret Hooper has a fit during which she calls out to those around her, emphatically asking if they too could see the devil.(5)
Appears in:
Anonymous. A True and Most Dreadfull Discourse of a Woman Possessed with the Deuill who in the Likenesse of a Headlesse Beare Fetched her out of her Bedd. London: 1584, 5
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1584 | Durham | Durham | Dvrham | England | |
487 | A devil in the shape headless and tail-less bear appears to Stephen and Margaret Hooper and 'strokes' them.(5-6)
Appears in:
Anonymous. A True and Most Dreadfull Discourse of a Woman Possessed with the Deuill who in the Likenesse of a Headlesse Beare Fetched her out of her Bedd. London: 1584, 5-6
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1584 | Durham | Durham | Dvrham | England | |
1129 | Mother Baker claims to be able to identify the person who bewitched the young maid Stupenny.(146)
Appears in:
Scot, Reginald. Scot's Discovery of Witchcraft Proving the Common Opinions of Witches Contracting with Devils, Spirits, or Familiars. London: 1651, 146
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1584 | Kent | Cantia | England | ||
2240 | Anne Beaver is indicted for allegedly practicing witchcraft upon Susan Mason, causing her death. Mason languished for eleven days and then died. (72-73)
Appears in:
Jeaffreson (editor), John Cordy . Middlesex County Records: Volume 2: 1603-25. Unknown: 1887, 72-73
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1584 | London | Edmonton | London, Greater | Middlesex | England |