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Snippet of news .......Birmingham Bewitching tree has sadly died.

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Its with sadness I read online that one of Birmingham's best-known 'bewitching' trees has finally reached the end of it's life. With so many old trees, flora and fauna being lost for various reasons including climate problems, pollution, building, vandalism, including fires, its been quite a harsh year for the environment in the UK. Fingers crossed that the wheel turns to the more positive soon.   Park rangers have announced that the well-loved and much photographed “Witching" tree has died Please visit link for story.    https://www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/midlands-news/Bewitching tree The famous "Witching" oak tree in Birmingham was an iconic, centuries-old tree located by the Visitors Centre at Town Gate in Sutton Park, known for local folklore about covens of witches According to legend, a coven of witches would gather underneath the great gnarly branches to hatch out their wicked plans.  Please visit this link for the full story.  https://www.faceb...
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Kat's Folklore Gallery, Witchy Wednesday

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  Welcome to another Witchy Wednesday.  Well in the UK we are now entering the Summer holiday season. Schools and colleges have all broken up and families up and down the country will be spending the coming weeks travelling to seaside towns and visiting Castles, theme parks and Zoo's. I am also having a little break though for me it's to enjoy a month of intense researching gathering Folklore stories and interesting spooky tales to share with you over the Autumn.  So for the next few weeks whilst I am happily buried under a mountain of books or looking down a well with a torch looking for ghosts! 😆I will instead be posting 'Kat's Folklore Gallery' which will include fabulous images of Witches and Folklore characters which I have come across both online, in books and whilst out and about.  My new 'Witchy Wednesday' articles will return on the 2nd of September.  Please note I do try to only feature real photos, real art whether sculpted, drawn, painted, sewn ...
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Newes from Scotland, declaring the damnable life... 1591

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Welcome to another Witchy Wednesday. Newes from Scotland (1591) is a sensational contemporary pamphlet detailing the infamous North Berwick Witch Trials. It claims a coven of witches, led by schoolmaster Dr. John Fian, used sorcery to conjure fierce storms to assassinate King James VI and his bride, Anne of Denmark, on their return voyage from Norway. Newes from Scotland, declaring the damnable life... 1591 Sourced from Internet Archive.  Thank you for visiting my blog, please join me for another Witchy Wednesday next week.  Kat 😊
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Elizabeth Tibbots , a Witchy Wednesday article

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  Letter about Elizabeth Tibbots. (Catalogue ref: SP 29/317 f.116) Elizabeth Tibbots (also spelled Tibbetts) was an 18-year-old girl from Stoneleigh, near Coventry, who became the center of a witchcraft mystery in 1672. A contemporary observer suspected her of being a witch or being bewitched after she began suffering violent seizures and vomiting inedible objects like knives and pebbles. In this letter the account of a woman who has been observed acting incredibly strangely is reported. The author suspects that she has either been bewitched, or is a witch herself. He is certain of what he has seen and that the Devil must be behind her bizarre behaviour, 2 November, 1672. Transcript (a) All our wonder hereabouts is employed at the strange condition of a maid near us, one Elizabeth Tibbots of about 18 years of age living with her uncle, one Thomas Crofts, at a place called Hust in the parish of Stoneleigh, about two miles hence. Which maid, for about this 3 weeks past has been taken...
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