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List of people executed for witchcraft

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File:Wickiana5.jpg in 1585]] This is a list of people executed for witchcraft, many of whom were executed during organized witch-hunts, particularly during the 15th–18th centuries. Large numbers of people were prosecuted for witchcraft in Europe between 1560 and 1630.Levack, p. 204

Background

Until around 1450, witchcraft-related prosecutions in Europe centered on maleficium, the concept of using supernatural powers specifically to harm others. Cases came about from accusations of the use of ritual magic to damage rivals. Until the early 15th century, there was little association of witchcraft with Satan.Levack, p. 205 From that time organized witch-hunts increased, as did individual accusations of sorcery. The nature of the charges brought changed as more cases were linked to diabolism. Throughout the century, several treatises were published that helped to establish a stereotype of the witch, particularly the Satanic connection. During the 16th century, witchcraft prosecutions stabilized and even declined in some areas. Witch-hunts increased again in the 17th century. The witch trials in Early Modern Europe included the Basque witch trials in Spain, the Fulda witch trials in Germany, the North Berwick witch trials in Scotland, and the Torsåker witch trials in Sweden.

There were also witch-hunts during the 17th century in the American colonies. These were particularly common in the colonies of Massachusetts, Connecticut, and New Haven. The myth of the witch had a strong cultural presence in 17th century New England and, as in Europe, witchcraft was strongly associated with devil-worship.Hall, p. 4 About eighty people were accused of practicing witchcraft in a witch-hunt that lasted throughout New England from 1647 to 1663. Thirteen women and two men were executed.Fradin, Judith Bloom, Dennis Brindell Fradin. The Salem Witch Trials. Marshall Cavendish. 2008, pg. 15 The Salem witch trials followed in 1692–93, culminating in the executions of 20 people. Five others died in jail.

It has been estimated that tens of thousands of people were executed for witchcraft in Europe and the American colonies over several hundred years. The exact number is unknown, but modern conservative scholars estimate around 40,000–50,000.{{Cref2|A}} Scholar Carlo Ginzburg of the University of Bologna, in his work Night Battles, estimates the number between 3-4 million people. Common methods of execution for convicted witches were hanging, drowning and burning. Burning was often favored, particularly in Europe, as it was considered a more painful way to die.Stack, p. 20 Prosecutors in English-speaking countries generally preferred hanging in cases of witchcraft.{{cite web |last=Purkiss |first=Diane |title=Witchcraft: Eight Myths and Misconceptions |url=https://www.english-heritage.org.uk/learn/histories/eight-witchcraft-myths |access-date=30 January 2025}}

List of people executed for witchcraft

class="wikitable sortable"

!Name

!Lifetime

!Nationality

!Death

{{Sortname|Theoris of LemnosTheoris of Lemnos}}

| {{sort

323|before 323 BC}}

| {{Flag|Greece|name=Greek}} (Lemnos)

|Unknown.

{{Sortname|Petronilla|de MeathMeath, Petronilla}}

| {{sort|1324|c. 1300–1324}}

| {{Flag|Ireland|name=Irish}}

| Burned to death.

{{Sortname|StedelenStedelen|Stedelen}}

| {{sort|1400|d. c. 1400}}

| {{Flag|Switzerland|name=Swiss}}

| Confessed under torture to summoning demons; burned to death and beheaded.

{{Sortname|KolgrimKolgrim|Kolgrim}}

| {{sort|1407|c. d. 1407}}

| {{Flag|Greenland|name=Norse}}

| Burned to death.

{{Sortname|Matteuccia|de FrancescoFrancesco, Matteuccia}}

| {{sort|1428|d. 1428}}

| {{Flag|Italy|name=Italian}}

| Confessed to having flown on the back of a demon; burned to death.

{{Sortname|Agnes|Bernauer}}

| {{sort|1435|c. 1410–1435}}

| {{Flag|Germany|name=German}}

| Convicted of witchcraft and thrown in the Danube to drown, following accusations by her father-in-law Ernest, Duke of Bavaria.

Guirandana de Lay

| {{sort|1461|d. 1461}}

| {{Flag|Spain|name=Spanish}}

| Woman accused of witchcraft; burned at the stake.

{{Sortname|Gentile|Budrioli}}

| {{sort|1498|d. 1498, 14 July}}

| {{Flag|Italy|name=Italian}}

| Tortured and burned on the stake in Bologna.

Narbona Dacal

| {{Sort|1498|d. 1498}}

| {{Flag|Spain|name=Spanish}}

| Accused of witchcraft during the trial by the Inquisition. Burned at the stake.

Hatuey

|{{Sort|1512|C. 1478 - 1512}}

|{{Flag|Cuba|name=Cuban}}

| Accused of rebellion and witchcraft; burned at the stake in Baracoa, Cuba.

Catherine Peyretone

|d. 1519

|{{Flag|France|name=French}}

|Accused of witchcraft; burned to death in Montpezat, France.

{{Sortname|Janet,|Lady Glamis|Janet Douglas, Lady Glamis|Glamis, Janet}}

| {{sort|1537|d. 1537}}

| {{Flag|Scotland|name=Scottish}}

| Accused of witchcraft by King James V; burned to death.

{{Sortname|Gyde|Spandemager}}

| {{sort|1543|d. 1543}}

| {{Flag|Denmark|name=Danish}}

| Burned to death.

{{Sortname|Lasses|Birgitta}}

| {{sort|1550|d. 1550}}

| {{Flag|Sweden|name=Swedish}}

| The first woman executed for witchcraft in Sweden; beheaded.

{{Sortname|Agnes|Waterhouse}}

| {{sort|1566|c. 1503–1566}}

| {{Flag|England|name=English}}

| The first woman executed for witchcraft in England; hanged.

{{Sortname|Polissena|of San MacarioPolissena}}

| {{sort|1571|d. 1571}}

| {{Flag|Italy|name=Italian}}

| Burned to death.

{{Sortname|Janet|Boyman}}

| {{sort|1572|d. 1572}}

| {{Flag|Kingdom of Scotland|name=Scottish}}

| Executed in 1572 for witchcraft

{{Sortname|Gilles|Garnier}}

| {{sort|1573|d. 1573}}

| {{Flag|France|name=French}}

| Serial child murderer; convicted of witchcraft and lycanthropy, and burned to death.

{{Sortname|Soulmother|of KüssnachtSoulmother}}

| {{sort|1577|d. 1577}}

| {{Flag|Switzerland|name=Swiss}}

| Burned to death.

{{Sortname|Violet|Mar}}

| {{sort|1577|d. 1577}}

| {{Flag|Scotland|name=Scottish}}

| The trial of Violet Mar is believed to have influenced the views on witchcraft held by James VI of Scotland

{{Sortname|Thomas|Doughty|Thomas Doughty (explorer)}}

| {{sort|1578|d. 1578}}

| {{Flag|England|name=English}}

| Nobleman and explorer accused by Sir Francis Drake of witchcraft, mutiny and treason; beheaded

Elleine Smith

|d.1579

|{{Flag|England|name=English}}

|Accused of bewitching her neighbour

{{Sortname|Ursula|Kemp}}

| {{sort|1582|c. 1525–1582}}

| {{Flag|England|name=English}}

| Confessed to witchcraft and hanged.

{{Sortname|Elisabeth|Plainacher}}

| {{sort|1583|1513–1583}}

| {{Flag|Austria|name=Austrian}}

| Only person to be executed for witchcraft in Vienna; burned to death.

{{Sortname|Walpurga|Hausmannin}}

| {{sort|1587|d. 1587}}

| {{Flag|Germany|name=German}}

| Midwife who confessed to child murder, witchcraft and vampirism; burned to death.

Ane Koldings

| {{sort|1590|d. 1590}}

| {{Flag|Denmark|name=Danish}}

| Burned to death.

{{Sortname|Rebecca|Lemp}}

| {{sort|1590|d. 1590}}

| {{Flag|Germany|name=German}}

| One of 32 women convicted of witchcraft in a witch hunt in Nördlingen, burnt at the stake.{{cite book|last1=Guiley|first1=Rosemary Ellen|title=The Encyclopedia of Witches, Witchcraft and Wicca|date=2008|publisher=Facts On File|location=New York|isbn=978-1-4381-2684-5|page=206|edition=3rd|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=nDdcVt9-jnMC&q=Rebecca%20Lemp&pg=PA206|chapter=Lemp, Rebecca (d. 1590)}}

{{Sortname|Anne|Pedersdotter}}

| {{sort|1590|d. 1590}}

| {{Flag|Norway|name=Norwegian}}

| Burned to death.

Kerstin Gabrielsdotter

|d. 1590

|{{Flag|Sweden|name=Swedish}}

|The only member of Swedish nobility to be charged with witchcraft; Unknown.{{Cite book |last=Almquist |first=Joh. Ax |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/2677928 |title=Frälsegodsen i Sverige under storhetstiden : med särskild hänsyn till proveniens och säteribildning |publisher=P.A. Norstedt |year=1931 |isbn=91-38-03119-1 |location=Stockholm |oclc=2677928}}

{{Sortname|Agnes|Sampson}}

| {{sort|1591|d. 1591}}

| {{Flag|Scotland|name=Scottish}}

| Midwife, garrotted and burned to death during the North Berwick witch trials.

{{Sortname|Marigje|Arriens}}

| {{sort|1591|c. 1520–1591}}

| {{Flag|Netherlands|name=Dutch}}

| Burned to death for sorcery.

{{Sortname|Witches of|WarboysWitches of Warboys}}

| {{sort|1593|d. 1593}}

| {{Flag|England|name=English}}

| Alice Samuel and her family; hanged.

{{Sortname|Allison|Balfour}}

| {{sort|1594|d. 1594}}

| {{Flag|Scotland|name=Scottish}}

| Executed in Kirkwall

Gwen ferch Ellis

| c.1542 – 1594

| {{Flag|Wales|name=Welsh}}

| The record of her trial is the earliest record of trial and execution on charges of witchcraft in Wales. She was first accused of Witchcraft in 1594. She was found guilty and hanged before the year's end at Denbigh town square in 1594.{{cite web|title=Gwen ferch Ellis|url=http://parish.churchinwales.org.uk/a065/history-en/gwen-ferch-elis-1542-1594/|website=Church in Wales|accessdate=28 January 2015|archive-date=30 June 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170630125714/http://parish.churchinwales.org.uk/a065/history-en/gwen-ferch-elis-1542-1594/|url-status=dead}}{{cite web |last=Hughes |first=Ian |date=25 October 2020 |title=The incredible true stories behind the five women executed for 'witchcraft' in North Wales |url=https://www.dailypost.co.uk/news/north-wales-news/incredible-true-stories-behind-five-19154303 |access-date=13 February 2024 |website=dailypost.co.uk |publisher= |quote=}}

{{Sortname|Jean|Delvaux}}

| {{sort|1595|d. 1595}}

| {{Flag|Belgium|name=Belgium}}

| Roman Catholic monk; beheaded

{{Sortname|Andrew|Man}}

| {{sort|1598|d. 1598}}

| {{Flag|Scotland|name=Scottish}}

| Tried and burnt{{citation |url=https://historycollection.com/devils-disciples-twelve-male-witch-trials-havent-heard/5/ |title=The Devil's Disciples: Twelve Male Witch Trials You Haven't Heard Of |author=Natasha Sheldon |date=18 November 2017 |publisher=History Collection}}{{citation |pages=83–84 |title=The Scottish Witch-Hunt in Context |isbn=9780719060243 |date=21 September 2002 |publisher=Manchester University Press |last=Goodare |first=Julian}}

{{Sortname|Pappenheimer|FamilyPappenheimer family}}

| {{sort|1600|d. 1600}}

| {{Flag|Germany|name=German}}

| Tortured and burned to death.

{{Sortname|Mary|Pannal}}

| {{sort|1603|d.1603}}

| {{Flag|England|name=English}}

|Unknown.

{{Sortname|Merga|Bien}}

| {{sort|1603|1560s–1603}}

| {{Flag|Germany|name=German}}

| Convicted as part of the Fulda witch trials and burned to death.

{{Sortname|Mechteld|ten HamHam, Mechteld}}

| {{sort|1605|d. 1605}}

| {{Flag|Netherlands|name=Dutch}}

| Confessed under torture and was burned to death.

{{Sortname|Nyzette|Cheveron|nolink=1}}

| {{sort|1605|d. 1605}}

| {{Flagicon image|Flag of Cross of Burgundy.svg}} Spanish Netherlands

| Confessed to being a witch; was strangled and burned to death; Led to the execution of Anne Nouville.

Sortname |Franziska Soder

| {{sort|1606|d. 1606, October 8}}

| {{Flagdeco|Old Swiss Confederacy}} Rheinfelden, Switzerland

| Burned as a witch. Her husband paid 320 Gulden as "confiscation" to the Gentlemen' Chamber in Rheinfelden.Schaeppi, Kathrin. (2000). Reunion: Schaeppi of Horgen: Family Chronicle. Basel: Gremper. Aus der Gemeindechronik Alte Bürgergeschlechter: Soder. p. 164.

{{Sortname|Elin|i HorsnäsHorsnas, Elin}}

| {{sort|1611|d. 1611}}

| {{Flag|Sweden}}

| Beheaded after her second trial for witchcraft.

{{Sortname|Alice|Nutter|Alice Nutter (witch)}}

| d. {{sort|1612|1612}}

| {{Flag|Kingdom of England|name=England}}

| Hanged during Pendle witches hunt

{{Sortname|Pendle|witchesPendle witches}}

| {{sort|1612|d. 1612}}

| {{Flag|Kingdom of England|name=England}}

|Unknown.

{{Sortname|Evaline|Gill|nolink=1}}

| {{sort|1616|d. 1616}}

| {{Flag|Kingdom of Scotland|name=Scotland}}

| Strangled; burned to death survived by 2 children moved to Singer Louisiana – Still living witch's Scalloway

{{Sortname|Elspeth|Reoch}}

| {{sort|1616|d. 1616}}

| {{Flag|Kingdom of Scotland|name=Scotland}}

| Executed in Kirkwall

Margaret Quaine

| {{sort|1617|d. 1617}}

| {{Flag|Isle of Man}}

| Executed in Castletown, Isle of Man with her son, John Cubbon. Margaret's mother was also accused of Witchcraft several decades prior. Wiccan Priest Gerald Gardner erected a plaque in their memory on the Smelt Monument in Castletown Square.

{{Sortname|Witches of|BelvoirWitches of Belvoir}}

| {{sort|1618|d. 1618}}

| {{Flag|Kingdom of England|name=England}}

| A mother and two daughters, the daughters were hanged.

{{Sortname|Sidonia|von BorckeBorcke, Sidonia}}

| {{sort|1620|1548–1620}}

| {{Flagicon image|Grunwald Słupsk i Szczecin.svg}} Pomerania

| Confessed to murder and witchcraft under torture; beheaded, corpse burned.

{{Sortname|Christenze|Kruckow}}

| {{sort|1621|1558–1621}}

| {{Flag|Denmark-Norway}}

| Noblewoman who confessed to cursing the marital bed of a rival; beheaded.

{{Sortname|Elizabeth Sawyer

| {{sort|1621|1572-1621}}

| {{Flag|England}}

| Poor woman executed at Tyburn.

{{Sortname|Anne|de ChantraineChantraine, Anne}}

| {{sort|1622|1601–1622}}

| {{Flag|Kingdom of France|name=France}}

| Strangled and then burned at the stake.

Rhydderch ap Ifan, Lowri ferch Ifan, and Agnes ferch Ifan

| 1622 (date of execution)

| {{flagicon|Wales}} Wales

| Indicted for felonious witchcraft at Caernarfon. It’s claimed that they were responsible for the death and bewitchment of Marged Huws of Llanbedrog. Though they pleaded not guilty, they were found guilty and hanged.{{cite book |last=Suggett |first=Richard |author-link= |date=2018 |title=Welsh Witches: Narratives of Witchcraft and Magic from sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Wales |url= |location= |publisher= |page=21 |isbn=}}{{cite web |url=https://www.dailypost.co.uk/news/north-wales-news/incredible-true-stories-behind-five-19154303 |title=The incredible true stories behind the five women executed for 'witchcraft' in North Wales |last=Hughes |first=Ian |date=25 October 2020 |website=dailypost.co.uk |publisher= |access-date=13 February 2024 |quote=}}

{{Sortname|Jón|RögnvaldssonRognvaldsson, Jon}}

| {{sort|1625|d. 1625}}

| {{Flagdeco|Denmark}} Iceland under Danish rule

| Burned to death.

{{Sortname|Katharina|Henot}}

| {{sort|1627|1570–1627}}

| {{Flagicon image|Black St George's Cross.svg}} Cologne

| Postmistress; burned to death.

{{Sortname|Johannes|Junius}}

| {{sort|1628|1573–1628}}

| {{Flag|Holy Roman Empire}}

| The mayor of Bamberg who was accused of hosting a witches' Sabbat and engaging in sexual intercourse with a succubus. Subjected to repeated torture and burned to death during the Bamberg witch trials

{{Sortname|Georg|Haan}}

| {{sort|1628|d. 1628}}

| {{Flag|Holy Roman Empire}}

| Sued Prince Bishop Johann Georg Fuchs von Dornheim in 1627 and left for Speyer. Shortly after he left, his wife and daughter were accused and burned. Upon his return in 1628 he was executed for witchcraft in the Bamberg witch trials

Kempfin

|d. 1629-1630

| {{Flag|Holy Roman Empire}}

| Accused by 13 witnesses of putting a 'frost' on the wine and grain crop during the Bamberg witch trials[https://digitalcommons.kennesaw.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1013&context=ojur page=]

{{Sortname|Urbain|Grandier}}

| {{sort|1634|1590–1634}}

| {{Flag|Kingdom of France|name=France}}

| Convicted following the Loudun possessions and burned to death.

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| {{Sortname|Johann Albrecht|Adelgrief}}

| {{sort|1636|d. 1636}}

| {{Flagicon image|Flag of Prussia (1466-1772) Lob.svg}} Royal Prussia

| Executed after claiming to be a prophet.{{Cite book|last1=Ripley|first1=George|author-link=George Ripley (transcendentalist) |last2=Dana|first2=Charles Anderson|author-link2=Charles Anderson Dana|title=The New American Cyclopaedia|publisher=D. Appleton and Company|year=1859|page=[https://archive.org/details/newamericancycl23danagoog/page/n136 122]|url=https://archive.org/details/newamericancycl23danagoog}}

{{Sortname|Maren|Spliid}}

| {{sort|1641|c. 1600–1641}}

| {{Flag|Denmark}}

| Burned to death.

{{Sortname|Elizabeth|Clarke}}

| {{sort|1645|c. 1565–1645}}

| {{Flag|Kingdom of England|name=England}}

| The first woman persecuted by the Witchfinder General, Matthew Hopkins; hanged.

Agnes Finnie

|d. 1645

|{{Flag|Kingdom of Scotland|name=Scotland}}

|Executed on the Castle Hill of Edinburgh

{{Sortname|Adrienne|d'HeurHeur, Adrienne}}

| {{sort|1646|1585–1646}}

| {{Flag|Kingdom of France|name=France}}

| Burned to death.

{{Sortname|Alse|Young}}

| {{sort|1647|c. 1600–1647}}

| {{Flagicon image|Red Ensign of England (Square Canton).svg}} Connecticut Colony

| The first person recorded to have been executed for witchcraft in the American colonies; hanged.

{{Sortname|Margaret|Jones|Margaret Jones (Puritan midwife)}}

| d. {{sort|1648|1648}}

| {{Flagicon image|English Red Ensign 1620.svg}} Massachusetts Bay Colony

| The first person to be executed for witchcraft in Massachusetts Bay Colony; hanged.

{{Sortname|Mary|Barnes|nolink=1}}

| {{sort|1648|c. 1631-Jan 1663}}

| {{Flagicon image|Red Ensign of England (Square Canton).svg}} Connecticut Colony

| The last person to be executed for witchcraft, along with Nathaniel and Rebecca Elson Greensmith, in Hartford, CT

{{Sortname|Alice|Lake|nolink=1}}

| {{sort|1650|1620–c. 1650}}

| {{Flagicon image|English Red Ensign 1620.svg}} Massachusetts Bay Colony

| Wife of Henry Lake; hanged in Massachusetts.

{{Sortname|Mrs.|Kendall|nolink=1}}

| {{sort|1650|c. 1650}}

| {{Flagicon image|English Red Ensign 1620.svg}} Massachusetts Bay Colony

| Hanged at Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Sortname|Elizabeth BassettJewett, Clarence F. The memorial history of Boston: including Suffolk County, Massachusetts. 1630–1880. Vol 2. Ticknor and Company, 1881. pp. 138–141

| {{sort|1651|born. 1651}}

| {{Flagicon image|English Red Ensign 1620.svg}} Massachusetts Bay Colony

| Accused but not executed because she was pregnant. (Husband John Proctor Jr was executed for being a Witch) Elizabeth died sometime after 1703. The cause is unknown but not from Witch trials.

{{Sortname|Jeane|Gardiner}}

| {{sort|1651|d. 1651}}

| {{Flagicon image|English Red Ensign 1620.svg}} Bermuda

| Executed in Bermuda.

{{Sortname|Michée|Chauderon}}

| {{sort|1652|d. 1652}}

| {{Flag|Old Swiss Confederacy|name=Switzerland}}

| Confessed under torture to summoning demons and was the last person executed for sorcery in Geneva.{{Cite book|last=Lea|first=Henry Charles|author-link=Henry Charles Lea|title=Materials Toward a History of Witchcraft|publisher=Kessinger Publishing|year=2004|page=1118|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=l-tXqlP5Pc4C&pg=PA1118|isbn=0-7661-8359-9}}

Sortname |Goodwife Knapp{{Cite web|url=http://www.damnedct.com/goody-knapp|title=Profile of Goodwife Knapp|access-date=2013-06-21|archive-date=2018-10-02|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181002020104/http://www.damnedct.com/goody-knapp|url-status=dead}}

| {{sort|1653|d. 1653}}

| {{Flagicon image|English Red Ensign 1620.svg}} Massachusetts Bay Colony

| Hanged at Fairfield, Connecticut.

Katherine Grady

|d. 1654

|{{Flag|Kingdom of England|name=England}}

|Accused of being a witch, tried, found guilty, and hanged aboard an English ship en route to Virginia from England.

Marged ferch Rhisiart (Margaret ferch Richard)

| 1655 (date of execution)

| {{flagicon|Wales}} Wales

| Indicted for bewitching Gwen Meredith. It’s said that Gwen fell ill and died at the end of December. Marged pleaded not guilty but was found guilty and sent to her death by hanging in 1655 outside Beaumaris courthouse, Ynys Môn.

{{Sortname|Ann|HibbinsHibbins, Ann}}

| d. {{sort|1656|1656}}

| {{Flagicon image|English Red Ensign 1620.svg}} Massachusetts Bay Colony

| The fourth person executed for witchcraft in Massachusetts Bay Colony; hanged on Boston Common

{{Sortname|Marketta|Punasuomalainen}}

| {{sort|1658|1600s–1658}}

| {{Flagdeco|Sweden}} Swedish Finland

| Cunning woman, burned to death.

Ursula Corbet

|d. March 14, 1661

|{{Flag|Kingdom of England|name=England}} Worcester

|Accused of being a witch, tried, found guilty of poisoning her husband of three weeks. Known as the white witch of Worcester who lived at Defford, near Pershore.

{{Sortname|Daniel|VuilVuil, Daniel}}

| {{sort|1661|d. 1661}}

| {{Flagicon image|Pavillon royal de la France.svg}} New France

| Shot with muskets on October 7, 1661. He was accused of causing the demonic possession of a girl, although his Protestantism and selling alcohol to the First Nations people were also factors. The only person to be executed for witchcraft in New France.Henneton & Roper 2016, p. 56

Alloa witches

|d. 1634-1662

|{{Flag|Scotland}}

|Cause of death largely undocumented. One of the accused, Margaret Duchill, was burned to death.

{{Sortname|Anna|RoleffesRoleffes, Anna}}

| {{sort|1663|c. 1600-1663}}

| {{Flagicon image|Flagge Herzogtum Braunschweig.svg}} Brunswick-Lüneburg

| Decapitated and burned on December 30, 1663. She was one of the last witches to be executed in Braunschweig, Germany and the complete account of her trial still exists. She is better known as Tempel Anneke.

Sortname |Goodwife Greensmith

| {{sort|1663|d. 1663}}

| {{Flagicon image|Red Ensign of England (Square Canton).svg}} Connecticut Colony

| Hanged at Hartford, Connecticut

{{Sortname|Isabella|Rigby|nolink=1}}

| {{sort|1666|d. 1666}}

| {{Flag|Kingdom of England|name=England}}

| Believed to be the last person hanged for witchcraft in Lancashire.{{citation needed|date=November 2017}}

{{Sortname|Lisbeth|Nypan}}

| {{sort|1670|c. 1610–1670}}

| {{Flag|Denmark-Norway}}

| Cunning woman accused of making people sick to earn money; burned to death.

{{Sortname|Thomas|Weir}}

| {{sort|1670|1599–1670}}

| {{Flag|Kingdom of Scotland|name=Scotland}}

| Strangled and burned to death.

{{Sortname|Märet|Jonsdotter}}

| {{sort|1672|1644–1672}}

| {{Flag|Sweden}}

| Beheaded

{{Sortname|Anna|Zippel}}

| {{sort|1676|d. 1676}}

| {{Flag|Sweden}}

| Beheaded for abducting children.

{{Sortname|Brita|Zippel}}

| {{sort|1676|d. 1676}}

| {{Flag|Sweden}}

| Beheaded for sorcery.

{{Sortname|Malin|Matsdotter}}

| {{sort|1676|1613–1676}}

| {{Flag|Sweden}}

| Burned to death.

Rachel Flemynge/Fleming

| 1678 (date of death)

| {{flagicon|Wales}} Wales

| First accused of witchcraft in 1668 at Glamorgan. Accused further of witchcraft practices, sentenced to death by burning, but died on the day of her execution.{{cite web|title=Defining the Figure of the Welsh Witch, 1536-1736|url=https://rune.une.edu.au/web/bitstream/1959.11/22216/5/open/SOURCE04.pdf|website=University of New England |access-date=16 February 2024}}

{{Sortname|Anne|Løset}}

| {{sort|1679|d. 1679}}

| {{Flag|Denmark-Norway}}

| Burned to death.

{{Sortname|Peronne|Goguillon}}

| {{sort|1679|d. 1679}}

| {{Flag|Kingdom of France|name=France}}

| Burned to death; one of the last women to be executed for witchcraft in France.

{{Sortname|Catherine|Deshayes|La Voisin}}

| {{sort|1680|c. 1640–1680}}

| {{Flag|Kingdom of France|name=France}}

| Also known as La Voisin; burned to death following the Affair of the Poisons

Sortname |Antti Tokoi

| {{sort|1682|d.1682}}

| {{Flagdeco|Sweden}} Swedish Finland

| Accused and convicted of witchcraft, blasphemy, disgracing priests, and healing.{{citation needed|date=November 2017}}

{{Sortname|Ann|Glover}}

| {{sort|1688|d. 1688}}

| {{Flagicon image|English Red Ensign 1620.svg}} Massachusetts Bay Colony

| Last person hanged for witchcraft in Boston.

{{Sortname|Alice|Parker|Alice Parker (Salem)}}

| {{sort|1692|d. 1692}}

| {{Flagicon image|English Red Ensign 1620.svg}} Massachusetts Bay Colony

| Hanged during the Salem witch trials.

{{Sortname|Ann|Pudeator}}

| {{sort|1692|d. 1692}}

| {{Flagicon image|English Red Ensign 1620.svg}} Massachusetts Bay Colony

| Hanged during the Salem witch trials.

{{Sortname|Bridget|Bishop}}

| {{sort|1692|c. 1632–1692}}

| {{Flagicon image|English Red Ensign 1620.svg}} Massachusetts Bay Colony

| The first person to be tried and executed during the Salem witch trials.{{Cite book|last=Upham|first=Caroline E.|title=Salem Witchcraft in Outline|publisher=Kessinger Publishing|year=2003|page=88|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=w3rSUVOarfoC&pg=PA88|isbn=0-7661-3900-X}}

{{Sortname|Elizabeth|Howe}}

| {{sort|1692|1635–1692}}

| {{Flagicon image|English Red Ensign 1620.svg}} Massachusetts Bay Colony

| Hanged during the Salem witch trials.

{{Sortname|George|Burroughs}}

| {{sort|1692|c. 1650–1692}}

| {{Flagicon image|English Red Ensign 1620.svg}} Massachusetts Bay Colony

| Congregational pastor, executed as part of the Salem witch trials.{{Cite book|last=Burr|first=George Lincoln|author-link=George Lincoln Burr|title=Narratives of the Witchcraft Cases 1648 to 1706|publisher=Kessinger Publishing|year=2003|page=215|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xHEUjkZshFoC&pg=PA215|isbn=0-7661-5773-3}}

{{Sortname|George|Jacobs|George Jacobs, Sr.}}

| {{sort|1692|1620–1692}}

| {{Flagicon image|English Red Ensign 1620.svg}} Massachusetts Bay Colony

| Hanged during the Salem witch trials.

{{Sortname|Giles|Corey}}

| {{sort|1692|c. 1611–1692}}

| {{Flagicon image|English Red Ensign 1620.svg}} Massachusetts Bay Colony

| Crushed to death for refusing to plead during the Salem witch trials. See peine forte et dure.

{{Sortname|John|Proctor|John Proctor (convicted witch)}}

| {{sort|1692|c. 1632–1692}}

| {{Flagicon image|English Red Ensign 1620.svg}} Massachusetts Bay Colony

| Hanged during the Salem witch trials.

{{Sortname|John|Willard}}

| {{sort|1692|c. 1672–1692}}

| {{Flagicon image|English Red Ensign 1620.svg}} Massachusetts Bay Colony

| Hanged during the Salem witch trials.

Margaret Scott

| {{sort|1692|d. 1692}}

| {{Flagicon image|English Red Ensign 1620.svg}} Massachusetts Bay Colony

| Hanged during the Salem witch trials.

{{Sortname|Martha|Carrier|Martha Carrier (Salem witch trials)}}

| {{sort|1692|d. 1692, August 19}}

| {{Flagicon image|English Red Ensign 1620.svg}} Massachusetts Bay Colony

| Hanged during the Salem witch trials; her children had claimed she was a witch while undergoing torture.

{{Sortname|Martha|Corey}}

| {{sort|1692|1620s–1692}}

| {{Flagicon image|English Red Ensign 1620.svg}} Massachusetts Bay Colony

| Hanged during the Salem witch trials

{{Sortname|Mary|Eastey}}

| {{sort|1692|1634–1692}}

| {{Flagicon image|English Red Ensign 1620.svg}} Massachusetts Bay Colony

| Hanged during the Salem witch trials

{{sortname|Mary|Parker|Mary Parker (Salem witch trials)}}

| {{sort|1692|d. 1692}}

| {{Flagicon image|English Red Ensign 1620.svg}} Massachusetts Bay Colony

| Hanged during the Salem witch trials.

{{Sortname|Rebecca|Nurse}}

| {{sort|1692|1621–1692}}

| {{Flagicon image|English Red Ensign 1620.svg}} Massachusetts Bay Colony

| Hanged during the Salem witch trials

{{Sortname|Sarah|Good}}

| {{sort|1692|1655–1692}}

| {{Flagicon image|English Red Ensign 1620.svg}} Massachusetts Bay Colony

| One of the first to be convicted in the Salem witch trials.

{{Sortname|Samuel|Wardwell}}

| {{sort|1692|1643–1692}}

| {{Flagicon image|English Red Ensign 1620.svg}} Massachusetts Bay Colony

| Hanged during the Salem witch trials.

{{Sortname|Sarah|Wildes}}

| {{sort|1692|1627–1692}}

| {{Flagicon image|English Red Ensign 1620.svg}} Massachusetts Bay Colony

| Hanged during the Salem witch trials.

{{Sortname|Susannah|Martin}}

| {{sort|1692|1621–1692}}

| {{Flagicon image|English Red Ensign 1620.svg}} Massachusetts Bay Colony

| Hanged during the Salem witch trials.

{{Sortname|Wilmot|Redd}}

| {{sort|1692|1600s–1692}}

| {{Flagicon image|English Red Ensign 1620.svg}} Massachusetts Bay Colony

| Hanged during the Salem witch trials.

{{Sortname|Mima|Renard}}

| {{sort|1692|d. 1692}}

| {{Flagdeco|Portugal|variant=1640}} Portuguese Brazil

| Prostitute, was accused by popular belief to bewitch men; burned to death.

{{Sortname|Anne|Palles}}

| {{sort|1693|1619–1693}}

| {{Flag|Denmark-Norway}}

| The last person officially executed for witchcraft in Denmark; beheaded.

{{Sortname|Viola|Cantini}}

| {{sort|1693|1668–1693}}

| {{Flagicon|Italy}}Italy

| Burned to death on May 10, 1693, after caught performing vampirism on her dying son and cursing members of the village.{{citation needed|date=May 2018}}

{{Sortname|Paisley|witchesPaisley witches}}

| {{sort|1697|d. 1697}}

| {{Flag|Kingdom of Scotland|name=Scotland}}

| Also known as the Bargarran witches, the last mass execution for witchcraft in western Europe.{{citation|last=Burns|first=William E.|title=Witch hunts in Europe and America: an encyclopedia|year=2003|publisher=Greenwood Publishing Group|page=3|isbn=978-0-313-32142-9}}

{{Sortname|Elspeth|McEwen}}

| {{sort|1698|d. 1698}}

| {{Flag|Scotland}}

| Stangled then burned at the stake.

{{Sortname|Anna|Eriksdotter}}

| {{sort|1704|1624–1704}}

| {{Flag|Sweden}}

| The last person executed for sorcery in Sweden.

{{Sortname|Laurien|Magee}}

| {{sort|1710|1689-1710}}

| {{Flag|Kingdom of Ireland|name=Ireland}}

| Burnt at the stake as part of the Islandmagee witch trial.Islandmagee witch trial

{{Sortname|Mary|Hicks|nolink=1}}

| d. {{sort|1716|1716}}

| {{Flag|England|name=England}}

|Mary and her daughter Elizabeth were to be the last Witches executed in England in Huntingdon.{{cite web|url=https://earlymodernmedicine.com/mary-hicks-witch-of-huntingdon/|title= Mary Hicks|website=earlymidernmedicine.com|date=11 April 2018|access-date=5 September 2019}}

{{Sortname|Janet|Horne}}

| {{sort|1727|d. 1727}}

| {{Flag|Scotland|name=Scotland}}

| Last British person to be executed for sorcery; burned to death.{{Citation needed|date=June 2013}}

{{Sortname|Catherine|Repond}}

| {{sort|1731|1662–1731}}

| {{Flag|Old Swiss Confederacy|name=Switzerland}}

| Strangled and burned to death.

{{Sortname|Helena|Curtens}}

| {{sort|1738|1722–1738}}

| {{Flagicon image|Banner of the Palatinate.svg}} Electoral Palatinate

| One of the last people to be executed for witchcraft in Germany.

{{Sortname|Bertrand|Guilladot}}

| {{sort|1742|d. 1742}}

| {{Flag|France|name=France}}

| Priest who confessed to having made a pact with the devil

{{Sortname|Maria Renata|Saenger von Mossau}}

| {{sort|1749|1680–1749}}

| {{Flagicon image|Electoral Standard of Bavaria (1623-1806).svg}} Bavaria

| One of the last to be executed for witchcraft in Germany.

{{Sortname|Maria|Pauer}}

| {{sort|1750|1730s–1750}}

| {{Flag|Archduchy of Austria|name=Austria}}

| Last person executed for witchcraft in Austria; beheaded.

{{sortname|Ruth|Osborne|Ruth Osborne (alleged witch)}}

| {{sort|1751|1680–1751}}

| {{Flag|Kingdom of England|name=England}}

| Murdered by an unruly mob during a "trial by ducking".

{{Sortname|Ursulina|de Jesus}}

| {{sort|1754|d. 1754}}

| {{Flagdeco|Portugal|variant=1750}} Portuguese Brazil

| Accused of removing her husband's virility to avoid having children; burned to death.

{{Sortname|Anna|Göldi}}

| {{sort|1782|d. 1782}}

| {{Flag|Old Swiss Confederacy|name=Switzerland}}

| Beheaded; last person to be executed for witchcraft in Europe{{Cite web|url=http://www.capitalpunishmentuk.org/europe.html|title=The abolition of capital punishment in Europe|website=capitalpunishmentuk.org}}

{{Sortname|Maria |da Conceição|Maria da Conceição (witch)}}

| {{sort|1798|d. 1798}}

| {{Flagdeco|Portugal|variant=1750}} Portuguese Brazil

| Accused and convicted of witchcraft to produce medicines and potions to attract men.

{{Sortname|Leatherlips|Leatherlips}}

| {{sort|1810|1732–1810}}

| Wyandot people

| Native American leader, sentenced to death for witchcraft and executed by tomahawk.{{Cite book|last1=Carpenter|first1=William Henry|last2=Arthur|first2=Timothy Shay|author-link2=Timothy Shay Arthur|title=The History of Ohio: From its Earliest Settlement to the Present Time|publisher=Lippincott, Grambo & Co.|year=1854|page=[https://archive.org/details/historyohiofrom00arthgoog/page/n221 209]|url=https://archive.org/details/historyohiofrom00arthgoog}}

{{Sortname|Barbara|Zdunk}}

| {{sort|1811|1769–1811}}

| {{Flagdeco|Prussia|1803}} Prussian Poland

| Burned to death.

{{Sortname| Ngema | Makhemu }}

| {{sort|2000|d. 2000, October}}

| {{Flag|South Africa}}

| Accused of witchcraft and burned to death by lynch mob, along with housemates Mbhejile Sibiya, Hlengiwe Ntuli, Samukelisiwe Masikane, Khanyisane Ngema, and Siyabonga Masikane.{{Cite web|url= http://paganrightsalliance.org/remember-their-names |title=Remember there names|website=paganrightsalliance.org/remember-their-names/ |date=26 June 2023 }}

{{Sortname|Ama|Hemmah}}

| {{sort|1947|d. 2010}}

| {{Flag|Ghana}}

| Accused of being a witch; burned to death.

{{Sortname|Amina|bint Abdulhalim Nassar}}

| {{sort|2011|d. 2011, December}}

| {{Flag|Saudi Arabia}}

| Public execution by beheading{{Cite web|url=http://www.capitalpunishmentuk.org/dec11.html|title=Executions in December 2011|website=capitalpunishmentuk.org}}

{{Sortname|Muree|bin Ali Al Asiri}}

| {{sort|2012|d. 2012, June}}

| {{Flag|Saudi Arabia}}

| Public execution by beheading{{Cite web|url=http://www.capitalpunishmentuk.org/jun12.html|title=Executions in June 2012|website=capitalpunishmentuk.org}}

{{Sortname|Ahmed|Kusane Hassan|nolink=1}}

| {{sort|2020|d. 2020, September}}

| {{Flag|Somalia}}

| Public execution by firing squad{{Cite web|url=https://allafrica.com/stories/202009250184.html|title = Somalia: Alshabab Executes Man for 'Witchcraft' in Somalia|date = 25 September 2020}}{{cite web|url=https://www.somaliland.com/news/al-shabaab-executes-man-accused-of-sorcery-in-middle-jubba/|title=AL Shabaab executes man accused of sorcery in Middle Jubba|date=24 September 2020}}

{{Sortname| Sangweni | Jostina }}

| {{sort|2021|d. 2021, April}}

| {{Flag|South Africa}}

| Brutally beaten and burned alive. (3).

Solani Mchunu

|18 June 2023

|{{Flag|South Africa}}

|Strangled to death. {{Cite news |title=Tragic! Gogo strangled, suspect stoned to death! |url=https://www.snl24.com/dailysun/news/elderly-woman-strangled-to-death-in-kzn-suspect-killed-in-mob-attack-20230622 |access-date=4 November 2024}}

Unidentified 85 year old woman

|12 February 2024

|{{Flag|South Africa}}

|Target of an arson attack.{{Cite news |date=13 February 2024 |title=Elderly couple killed in alleged arson attack due to witchcraft allegations |url=https://newcastillian.com/2024/02/13/elderly-couple-killed-in-alleged-arson-attack-due-to-witchcraft-allegations/}}

Dugulu Purti (husband)

Suku Horo (wife)

Daskir Purti (daughter)

|12 October 2024

|India

|Stripped, beaten with sticks, stabbed to death with sharp weapons. {{Cite web |date=n.d. |title=Three of a family killed in Jharkhand over witchcraft allegations |url=https://yespunjab.com/three-of-a-family-killed-in-jharkhand-over-witchcraft-allegations/ |access-date=4 November 2024}}

Images

File:Agnes Bernauer Ducissa.jpg|Agnes Bernauer, executed in 1435

File:Catherine Deshayes (Monvoisin, dite «La Voisin») 1680.jpg|Catherine Deshayes aka La Voisin, executed in 1680

File:Urbain Grandier.jpg|Urbain Grandier, executed in 1634

File:ExecutionAnnHibbins1.jpg|Execution of Ann Hibbins on Boston Common, June 19, 1656. Sketch by F.T. Merril, 1886

File:Giles Corey restored.jpg|Giles Corey being crushed to death, 1692

File:Martha Corey and Persecutors.JPG|Martha Corey was executed in 1692

File:Matteson-jacobs.jpg|The Trial of George Jacobs who was executed in 1692. Painting by Thompkins Matteson, 1855

File:Agnes Waterhouse.jpg|Agnes Waterhouse was executed in Chelmsford, England in 1566

Notes

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{{Cnote2|A|According to Kors & Peters, modern scholars place the number of executions for witchcraft at no greater than 50,000.{{Cite book | last1 = Kors | first1 = Alan Charles | author-link = Alan Charles Kors | last2 = Peters |first2 = Edward | title = Witchcraft in Europe, 400–1700: A Documentary History | publisher = University of Pennsylvania Press | year = 2001 | page = 17 | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=fswxYJDBLygC&pg=PA17 | isbn =0-8122-1751-9 }} According to Merriman, some estimates are higher.{{Cite book | last = Merriman | first = Scott A. | title = Religion and the Law in America | volume = 1 | publisher = ABC-CLIO | year = 2007 | page = 527 | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=l_8VFygyaDYC&pg=PA527 | isbn = 978-1-85109-863-7}} Levack multiplied the number of known European witch trials by the average rate of conviction and execution, to arrive at a figure of around 60,000 deaths.Levack Barstow adjusted Levack's estimate to account for lost records, estimating 100,000 deaths. Many were burned by the stake, decapitated, and tortured in various ways.Barstow Hutton argues that Levack's estimate had already been adjusted for these, and revises the figure to approximately 40,000.Hutton}}

{{Cnote2 End}}

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