Marking the Summer Solstice, We Are Witch embarks on a memorial pilgrimage through Norfolk, honoring women persecuted in the witch trials with ritual dress, sound art, and a commemorative quilt stitched in remembrance.
https://wildhunt.org/2025/06/riverside-pilgrimage-to-remember-witches.html
#england #WeAreWitch #SummerSolstice #advocacy #witchcraft #witchcrafttrials #witches
@scothistrail Although Janet McKeoner was the only Penninghame person accused of witchcraft in that year, others had been accused in preceding years: Mary MacNairn in 1705, then John MacNairn and Jean Brown in 1706.
This aspect of Penninghame's history goes unmentioned in the #wikipedia article, though it has a paragraph about the Kirk minister of the time.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penninghame
Today we remember those murdered in Salem, beginning June 10, 1692.
In 1603, a thirteen-year old boy called Jean Grenier from La Roche-Chalais, a small barony in France’s Dordogne region, stubbornly confessed that he was a werewolf. The young shepherd boy’s troubles had begun in May when he encountered three female cowherds who were discussing the latest wolf attacks in the region.
#Histodon
#HistoricalPrecedent
#Werewolf
#Lycanthropy
#WitchcraftTrials
#17thCentury
https://notevenpast.org/primary-source-when-harry-met-a-werewolf-manuscript/
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This and other articles in Primary Source: History from the Ransom Center Stacks represent an ongoing partnership between Not Even Past and the Harry Ransom Center, a world-renowned humanities research library and museum at The University of Texas at Austin. Visit the Center’s website to learn more about its collections and get involved. In 1603, a thirteen-year old boy called Jean Grenier […]
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