Kent

Name:Joan Cason Location:Faversham, Kent Date:1586 Accusations:When Sarah Cooke’s young daughter fell ill, a traveller told her that the girl had been bewitched. To cure her, the worried mother was advised to procure a roof tile from the house of the woman she suspected was responsible: Joan Cason. Sarah was to place the tile in the …

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Name:Anne Ashby, (alias Anne Cobler) Location:Cranbrook, Kent Date:1652 Accusations:Anne, a spinster, was accused of bewitching the three year old daughter of Richard Wilding to death, and another infant on 4th December the year before. She was also accused along with four other women of bewitching Elizabeth Osborne on 19th April, 1652, causing her to languish until she died …

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