Alice Fowler is a woman from the London parishes of Shadwell and Wapping, described as a widow of ancient mariner of "about the Age of Forescore Years." She is well known as a "malicious ill-natured woman and for many years had been reputed a witch," having so badly frightened a girl she nursed circa 1664 that she never fully recovered and maintained all her life that Fowler was a witch. This girl was not the only one who accused Fowler of being a witch -- her own son, Walter Fowler, did as well. (Walter) Fowler was also a person of ill repute; he was transported to Barbados and eventually hanged there for robbing a house and killing his wife. Alice Fowler was generally seen as a woman who "generally got Drunk, and being a very Debauched and Leud Woman," who is "despised and slighted by the Neighbourhood." Her reputation was further damaged by the fact that she supplements the income she gets by selling biscuits to bawdy houses and by accepting alms from Trinity House. Fowler is discovered dead one day. Her body was cold as clay and her thumbs and toes tied (a sign she had been swum). Her nosy neighbours search strangely stinking body and discover "teats" on her body, "four small ones and one very big, and that they were all of them as black as a Coal."(1-3)

A neighbour of Alice Fowler who searches her for witch's marks. The neighbours find five black teats near her private parts.(3)

A man from somewhere in between the London parishes of Shadwell and Wapping, himself a thief and a murder, who is later transported to the Barbados, and hanged for breaking and entering and killing his wife, who accuses his mother, Alice Flower, of bewitching him and several others for years on end. (2)

A man from somewhere in between the London parishes of Shadwell and Wapping, himself a thief and a murder, who is later transported to the Barbados, and hanged for breaking and entering and killing his wife, who accuses his mother, Alice Flower, of bewitching him and several others for years on end. (2)

A woman who presumably lived somewhere between the London parishes of Wapping and Shadwell who as a girl was nursed by Alice Flower (circa 1664). As the girl grew into a woman, she "was still fearful and apprehensive of her, until the time of her Death." The narrator suggest that Anonymous 79, who had "been affrighted by some of [Alice Fowler's] Tricks when she was Young," had a terrible life thereafter, living always in the "greatest Dread and Terror imaginable." She appears to have died by the time of publication. (2)

A woman who presumably lived somewhere between the London parishes of Wapping and Shadwell who as a girl was nursed by Alice Flower (circa 1664). As the girl grew into a woman, she "was still fearful and apprehensive of her, until the time of her Death." The narrator suggest that Anonymous 79, who had "been affrighted by some of [Alice Fowler's] Tricks when she was Young," had a terrible life thereafter, living always in the "greatest Dread and Terror imaginable." She appears to have died by the time of publication. (2)

A woman who lived in between the London parishes of Shadwell and Wapping, described as a "poor woman." Anonymous 80 is a neighbour of Alice Flower's who comes to take care of Alice when she is ill. She locked the door behind her, having left Fowler to run an errand for her, "and took the Key with her, leaving no body there save the aforesaid Alice sick in her Bed." Anonymous 80, however, came back to find the corpse of Alice Fowler, "dead and cold as Clay laying on the Floor on her Back, and having her two great Toes ty'd together, and a Blanket flung over her. This woman "called in the Neighbours who were all in great astonishment," but who after a brief discussion, had to leave, "in that there was so great a stink when they stir'd the Corps that they could hardly endure the Room."(3-4)