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Alesoun Balfour
Mary Ellen Pleasant, Voodoo Queen of San Francisco
Maria de Naglowska, (Sophia de Montparnasse)
Maya Deren
Canaanite Goddess
Isobel Gowdie
Rossetti, Lady Lillith detail
Margaret Brodie
Elizabeth Anderson
Elizabeth Sawyer
The Witch of Edmonton, a Play About Elizabeth Sawyer c. 1621
Mme. de Montespan
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| Portrait of a Young Woman as a Sibyl, 1621, Gentileschi |
The Witch of Edmonton, a Play About Elizabeth Sawyer c. 1621
Mme. de Montespan
La Voisin, (Catherine Monvoisin)
La Bella, Titian, 1536
During the reign of Henry the IV of France, Marie Balcoin was an accused sorceress from Pays de Labourd. She was burned at the stake.
Alesoun Balfour
Portrait of a Lady, El Greco 1594
Alesoun – or Alison – Balfour was accused of taking part in a plot to murder Orkney Earl Patrick Stewart. His brother, John Stewart, was thought to be behind the plot and his servant, Thomas Paplay, named Alesoun Balfour as an accomplice. After Alesoun, her husband, son and daughter were tortured, she confessed to witchcraft. Her execution occurred in 1594
Maggie Wall
Salvator Rosa, portrait of the artist's wife Lucrezia, 1657
A statute near the small village of Dunning, Scotland currently reads “Maggie Wall burnt here 1657 as a Witch.” Nobody knows why she was accused of witchcraft.
Hoodoo Lizzie Brown
Lizzie Brown
Marie Laveau
Hoodoo Lizzie Brown
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| Voodoo Queen of the Old West |
Marie Laveau
Mary Ellen Pleasant, Voodoo Queen of San Francisco
Maria de Naglowska, (Sophia de Montparnasse)
Russian Occultist
Maya Deren
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