Witch Wednesday
Welcome to another Witchy Wednesday and the first of January 2024. I hope you all had a wonderful Christmas and New Year. Thank you to those of you who sent me kind messages and festive cards! Much appreciated 😊
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I had planned on starting 2024 with a light hearted article on The Lincoln Imp, which I promise to post at a later date, but a friend contacted me to ask if I would post about this really important petition on the UK Government and Parliament website to legally pardon those convicted in Great Britain for offences of Witchcraft.
As you know I feel quite strongly that most, if not all, of people accused of Witchcraft were victims of gossip, family feuds, greed, religion and predudices! So I decided to use this weeks Witchy Wednesday as a platform to hopefully increasing awareness and maybe add some more signatures for this really important issue.
Please follow the link below to read the petition and if you agree please sign and share around the internet with like minded friends to show support.
Please visit this link.
https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/640686
It's really important to sign and/or share around Instagram and the internet. The petition ends on the 13th of January. 10,000 the UK Government will have to respond to it. 100,000 then it will be considered for debate in Parliament. It's a long shot but wouldn't it be nice to finally get justice to all of those women and men who were wrongly accused and convicted. A great many men and women were wrongly put to death after days sometime months of torture.
The Witchcraft Act 1735 repealed legislation creating offences for witchcraft, recognising that the belief that people could use demonic magic to harm and murder was not a reality. Even though this meant the people convicted and executed under former Acts had been innocent, they were never pardoned!
Additional Research on Witchcraft trials
I found this really informative article, with interesting links, in which Dr Charlotte-Rose Millar shares her research and thoughts on witchcraft in early modern Europe.
https://blogs.unimelb.edu.au/shaps-research/2022/02/28/witchcraft/
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| The apprehension and confession of three notorious witches, c1589. Lambeth Palace Library, 1597.15.03 Sadly lots of women and some men lost their lives wrongly accused of witchcraft. Quite a few where mentioned in pamphlets with woodcut illustrations. |
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| Anne Bodenham There is mention of Anne Bodenham here on Wiltshire Museum website. https://www.wiltshiremuseum.org.uk/news-articles/cursed-collections/ |
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| The Witches of Belvoir. For more details on these ladies please visit this link. |
https://www.flickr.com/photos/60861613@N00/3836687439
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| The Northamptonshire Witches who were sadly sentenced to death,under by modern eyes, to crimes based on prejudice, gossip and fabricated stories also included Mr Arthur Bill. Even though it was mostly poor women who often bore the brunt of accusations of Witchcraft sometimes men were also accused and executed! Youtube video on Witchcraft and Ann Bodenham. |
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Even though Folk stories are fascinating to children please note that some folk tales and historical articles I post links too can be quite scary or contain adult themes. I would therefore recommend visiting all links and checking them yourselves before showing to younger children.
