Agnes Waterhouse The Mother Of Witchcraft

Agnes Waterhouse The Mother Of Witchcraft
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https://dai.ly/x7vtdjf - Agnes Waterhouse The Mother Of Witchcraft, Agnes Waterhouse also known as Mother Waterhouse, was the first woman executed for witchcraft in England. In 1566, she was accused of witchcraft along with two other women: Elizabeth Francis and Joan Waterhouse. All three women were from the same village, Hatfield Peverel. Wikipedia
Born 1503 England United Kingdom
Died July 27 1566 Chelmsford United Kingdom
Children: Joan Waterhouse

Agnes Waterhouse
b. circa 1503, England; d. 1566, Chelmsford, England
Agnes Waterhouse was put on trial in Chelmsford England in 1566 for using witchcraft to cause illness;,her eighteen-year-old daughter Joan was accused of the same crime. Joan testified against her in order to save herself and Agnes was hanged, becoming the first woman executed for witchcraft in England.
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Agnes Waterhouse (c. 1501/02 – 29 July 1566) or Mother Agnes Waterhouse was put on trial in Chelmsford England in 1566 convicted then executed for witchcraft in July 1566

Together with her eighteen-year-old daughter Joan or Jone, Agnes was implicated by her younger sister, Elizabeth Francis, who also faced charges. Elizabeth informed her interrogators she had given her familiar – a cat named Sathan – to Agnes. The pair were close neighbours in the small village of Hatfield Peverel, five or six miles to the north-east of Chelmsford in Essex where the case was heard.

The impoverished sixty-four-year-old Agnes admitted being given the feline in return for a piece of one of the cakes she was baking, adding that Elizabeth passed on instructions of how to care for the cat that she had initially received from her grandmother, Mother Eve. Agnes, whose details are recorded in the contemporary pamphlet “The examination and confession of certaine
Wytches at Chensforde“, confessed to first having the creature kill one of her own pigs to test what it was capable of, before having it kill the livestock of other villagers with whom she had disagreements. Sathan slept in a pot lined with wool, but she needed the wool for other things so successfully prayed for the familiar to be changed into a toad instead. Several other malicious tasks performed by the feline on her behest are also listed. She rewarded Sathan for this work by allowing it a drop of her blood or sometimes with some chicken. Agnes pleaded guilty to triggering a bout of dysentery in her neighbour, William Fyne (or Fynee) on 1 October 1565 resulting in his death the following month