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The Tudor Age
The Tudor Age
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2 months ago
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#OTD
28th January 1591
Agnes Sampson, Scottish healer and alleged witch was executed.

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#AgnesSampson #WiseWifeofKeith #NorthBerwickWitchTrials #KingJamesVIofScotland #Stuarts #Scotland #History

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The Daily Historian
The Daily Historian
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1 year ago
Title page of a 1603 reprinting

Title page of a 1603 reprinting

Suspected witches kneeling before King James, Daemonologie (1597)

Suspected witches kneeling before King James, Daemonologie (1597)

Her execution was one of many in the North Berwick Witch Trials, a panic that James himself fuelled, later writing a book, Daemonologie, to justify the persecution of witches.

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The Tudor Age
The Tudor Age
@tudorage1973.bsky.social
1 year ago
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#OTD
28th January 1591
Agnes Sampson, Scottish healer and alleged witch, was executed.
Known as the Wise Wife of Keith, Agnes was involved in the North Berwick Witch Trials.

www.instagram.com/p/DFWp-a6J-D...

#AgnesSampson #WiseWifeofKeith #Stuarts #Scotland #History

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