Geillis Duncane

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This is NOT a page about Wiccans or neo-pagans, and I do not advocate the belief that Wiccans are Satan-worshippers and/or baby-killers. I am well aware that they are not. This is a starting point for historical research into the great witch craze of 1100-1700 AD. And please, don't ask me for spells.

Geillis Duncane

In 1591, a servant girl by the name of Geillis Duncane "was suspected of witchcraft by her employer, tortured, handed over to the authorities, and subjected to further torment with the thumbscrews. Her tongue thus loosened, Geillis confessed her guilt and disclosed a long list of accomplices, which included a woman named Agnis Sampson, a schoolteacher named John Fian, and nearly seventy others" (Sidky 55).

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