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List of all Event assertions around a specific parish

ID Short Description Date City Parish Current County Old county Nation
1004

"The Wisemen" from Knaresborough Forest (the home of many of the accused witch's in Edward Fairfax's account), allegedly teach the locals to burn calves as an act of counter magic when their cows will not give milk(34-34)

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1621   Forest of Knaresborough   North Yorkshire  York  England 
1106

Thomas Forrest is allegedly attacked by group of cats as he rides past Margaret Wait's home which follow him a great distance at a great speed. Helen Fairfax later claims these cats where witches that had shape shifted into cats to "touch" Forrest and bewitch him.(91)

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1621, March 20   Forest of Knaresborough   North Yorkshire  York  England 
1107

Henry Graver allegedly hired Margaret Waite and Margaret Thorpe to bewitch Helen and Elizabeth Fairfax and Maud Jeffray. He continued to pay for the witch's for silence on the matter (or they blackmailed him).(92)

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1622, March 2   Forest of Knaresborough   North Yorkshire  York  England 
1108

The Strange Woman, (Anonymous 116) allegedly sat, in the form of a cat, in from of the fire at Margaret Waite's home, where she overheard Henry Graver hire Margaret Waite and Margaret Thorpe to bewitch Maud Jeffray and Helen and Elizabeth Fairfax. (92)

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1622, March 2   Forest of Knaresborough   North Yorkshire  York  England