Female power witchcraft and gender in Elizabethan England
Ioane Cunny, liuing very lewdly, hauing two lewde Daughters, no better then naughty packs, had two Bastard Children beeing both boyes, these two Children were cheefe witnesses, and gaue in great euidence against their Grandam and Mothers, the eldest being about 10. or 12. yeeres of age. Against this Mother Cunny the elder Boye gaue in this euideoce which she herselfe after confessed, that she going to Braintye Market, came to one Harry Finches house, to demaund some drink, his wife being busie...
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1. Briggs, R 1996 Witches amp Neighbours The social and cultural context of European Witchcraft, Penguin 2. Coward, B 2003 The Stuart Age England 1603-1714, Pearson Education, 3rd Edition 3. Dils, J and Schwartz, D 2004 Tudor and Stuart Shrivenham Published by the authors 4. Duffy, E 2003 The voices of Morebath Reformation and Rebellion in an English Village Yale University Press 5. Durston, G 2000 Witchcraft and witch trials a history of English witchcraft and its legal perspectives 1542 to...
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Oysth witch-trials of 15823 , she was hung the following year after the birth of her child.4 Joan's crime, along with two other convicted Essex witches, was duly retold in a contemporary pamphlet The arraignment and execution of three detestable witches1. The Cunny family of witches was just one small example of the witchcraft trials that took place within England at the regular county Assizes between the first Elizabethan witchcraft statute of 1563 an Act against Conjuracions Inchantments and...