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In Srem (a region in Vojvodina) it is said that Witches gather above the Molovina village on some kind of walnut tree, and in Croatia they say that Witches gather on the mountain pine over Ogulin, and Klek. They say that in Srem a man in bed, after seeing a Witch fly away from his house, found her pot with the ointment and applied it on himself. He said the words that she said, and transformed into something and flew away, following her. He came to one walnut tree above Molovina and found a number of Witches, seated at a golden table and drinking from the golden glasses. When he looked at them, he recognized many of them and crossed himself saying; “anate vas mate bilo”. At that time, they all disappeared and he fell under the walnut tree as the man he used to be. The golden table disappeared as the Witches and their golden glasses became animal hooves. When the spirit of a Witch leaves her, she will lie as if dead. If someone turns her body around so that her head lay on the place where her legs had been during that time, she would never wake up again. When people see a butterfly flying around the house, they think that is the Witch and then they catch it if they can, burn it on a candle a little bit and then they release it, saying: “Come tomorrow again I will give you some salt.”. Then, if some woman came to ask for salt or for any other reason the next day, especially if she has been burned, then they think that she’s the one who came the day before. We could find many similar descriptions of Witches in the contemporary ethnological literature of the time. By the late 19th century, Nikola Begovic, in his book “Life of the Serbian Frontiersmen”, R.Ristic #dorjanslogar #folklore #photography #witchcraft #witchesofinstagram #witchy #witches #witchesbroom #malewitchesofinstagram #slavic #witchhistory #mythology #balkanwitchcraft #equinox #pagan #occult #folkmagic #witchlore #witchcommunity #dark #darkbeautymag (at Salona Roman Ruins) https://www.instagram.com/p/Cbus6eKNBhD/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

19th September 1692, Salem resident Giles Cory refuses to enter a plea of guilty or not guilty being accused of being a Wizard, after his wife was accused of Witchcraft. Due to the proceeding of the law in 17th century New England, without a plea the Witchcraft court of Oyer and Terminer could not proceed with a trial, and the action was taken to proceed with ‘Peine Forte Et Dure’ or pressing under stones to force a plea; the only time this form of turture was ever used in American history. After two days of rocks and boulders being piled up on top of boards which covered the naked 80 year old Giles Corey, he finally died, all the time refusing to plead. His last words were recorded as either “More rocks.” orr, "Damn you. I curse you and Salem!" Three days later, his wife Martha Cory alongside Margaret Scott, Mary Easty, Alice Parker, Ann Pudeator, Willmott Redd, Samuel Wardwell, and Mary Parker are hanged upon the charges of Witchcraft. The last people to be executed during the Salem Witch Trials. As well as the ghosts of those executed recorded as being seen after their death, such as the ghost of Mary Easty who proclaimed their innocence to Mary Herrick of Wenham, MA on the 22nd of September, the same day the last victims of the trials were executed; some Salem legends also proclaim the sightings as a curse. One legend states that Giles Corey’s ghost is seen before a disaster is about to strike Salem. His ghost was reputedly seen the night before the ‘Great Fire’ of 1914, in which large areas of the city were destroyed. The position of Sheriff of Essex County, also was said to have been cursed, due to the involvement of (continued in the comments). #darkillustration #darkillustrations #witchcrafthistory #witchhistory #17thcentury #17thcenturyart #superstitions #folklore #strangehistory #witchtrials #witchfindergeneral #witchartist #morbidhistory #witchtrials1692 #historyofwitchcraft #witchpersecution #salemmassachusetts #salemwitch #salemwitchtrials #witchcraft #witchcrafttrials #historyofwitches #newenglandhistory #newenglandwitch #newenglandwitches #colonialnewengland #witchesofnewengland #newengland #witchcraftaesthetic #16thcenturyhistory https://www.instagram.com/p/CUNdnOVFBsu/?utm_medium=tumblr

Anne Boleyn could not give King Henry VIII a son as an heir to the throne, causing him to look for ways to escape their marriage. Rumors began that she had 6 fingers on her left hand and could be heard muttering spells against the country. The King eventually had her investigated for high treason and on May 19, 1536, she was beheaded.

October 9th 1562, death of Catholic priest, Italian anatomist, namesake of the Fallopian tubes, and pioneer of condom use to prohibit sexually transmitted diseases, Gabriel Fallopius; one of the most important figures in medicine and anatomy in the sixteenth century, despite his death on this day aged only 39. Fallopius inherited and continued the anatomical work begun in Padua, Italy by his predecessor Vesalius, the pioneer of modern anatomical study, and author of ‘De humani corporis fabrica’ (On the Fabric of the Human Body), published in 1543. Vesalius it was noted last week died on the 2nd of October 1564, by the effects of a shipwreck, on his way to the Holy Land in mysterious circumstances, accused by his detractors of performing an autopsy on a living person, and fleeing from the Inquisition. As a young man Vesalius had been taught by Dutch physician, mathematician, cartographer, philosopher, and instrument maker Gemma Frisius, who also taught the Welsh astronomer, astrologer and occult philosopher John Dee. As head of anatomy at the University of Padua, Fallopius taught Hieronymus Fabricius, known as the "The Father of Embryology”. In 1594, Fabricius designed the first theatre for public anatomical dissections, and also designed an orthopedic exoskeleton he called the ‘Oplomoclion’. Fabricius would himself teach the English physician William Harvey, the first known physician to completely map systemic circulation, and describe in detail the properties of blood pumped to the brain and the rest of the body by the heart. Theories he would publish in 1628 as ‘De Motu Cordis’. Harvey also from 1618 was 'Physician Extraordinary' to King James I. In keeping with the monarch’s paranoia (Continued in the comments). #darkillustration #darkillustrations #witchcrafthistory #witchhistory #16thcentury #17thcentury #17thcenturyart #historyofscience #superstitions #folklore #strangehistory #historyofphilosophy #williamharvey #witchtrials #jamesi #witchfindergeneral #pendlewitches #folklore #witchartist #morbidhistory #anatomical #anatomicalart #historyofanatomy #scientificrevolution #fallopian #sciencehistory #anatomy #anatomytheatre #physician #sciences https://www.instagram.com/p/CUxhYvllQed/?utm_medium=tumblr

Painting -  "Examination of a witch" by Tompkins Harrison Matteson (1853)

Agnes Waterhouse was the first woman in Britain to be accused, tried, and sentenced to death for being a witch by a secular court in 1566. She refused to repent and claimed that the Devil predicted she would die by hanging or burning so there was no way to prevent her fate

In 1679, King Louis XIV established a ‘Chambre Ardente” or a “burning court” made to investigate potential witches that the public believed to be causing poison related deaths. What began as a search for a murder became the “Affair of the Poisons,” one of the largest witch trials in history, taking three times the lives taken by the Salem witch Trials.

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