Names associated with salem witch trials

Do you have the email of this women Id like to talk to her… I am related to the witch bloodline. Thanks, blessings. I did a bit of looking awhile back through my Italian side i believe i traced some of my family to Naples Italy. Susannah is my 12th ggm as well.. Inam also gifted. I was always cudioys if the persecuted witches descendants had powers and abilities. I know that Susannah was a Pious Christian woman. So , having natural abilities is a curious thing , isnt it?

Xo, Tracy. I am related to Bruce as well. Robert De Bruce is my 21st great grandfather. My grandmother was a Porter maiden. His last name is Langford, though.

My DNA profile has me as predom Scottish. Most of the victims were hanged, one pressed to death with rocks. Plus the Putnam name is associated with the accusers, not the actual witches. No one was burnt in Salem. Hung mostly and one man Corey Giles was pressed to death with large stones. Build a family tree and research your familial last names against witch trial lists. Putnam; as Admin states, no accused witches were burned at the stake in Salem.

They were hung or pressed to death, with any number also dying in the prison of the usual ailments associated with imprisonment at that time. Also, Ann Putnam and her family were among the accusers, not the accused. The Nordic patronyms Jonsdotter and Eriksdotter would only exist for a generation, and it would be impossible to decide whether you are related to them unless they are placed by the name of the farm they were born on or the one they lived and died on.

Any daughter of Erik would be Eriksdotter and her children would not share her last name. While that is traditionally true, a lot of families chose to keep that as a surname for many generations especially if they moved somewhere else. I know women with the surname of Erikson or Ericsson.

Merri meet, You have nothing on eastern European witches as you all call them? Why is that? And if you are a descendant, you will know. The elders of your family will always tell you. The power is more like a connection in your bloodline to all and everything around you.

Because you know if you back up everything is one. I had to break the articles up into pieces — Europe is a large continent. It depends on the region and the individual.

And I truly believe our ancestors made due with what they had, so we should make due with […]. Ancestors Miscellaneous August 28, Before We Start: Please Note! Mediterranean Witch Bloodline Names Italy and surrounding Mediterranean countries also had their fair share of Witch Trials and executions.

If you have Italian or Mediterranean surnames in your family, check this list: Now What? How to Honor Your Witch Ancestors So you found one of your familial names on the witch bloodline names list…now what? Ancestral Witchcraft: Does it Matter? Witch Ancestors Series: More to Come!

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All who were accused and found guilty, those who were executed and those who escaped or died in prison. The names below are taken from Connecticut, Maryland, and New York witch trial documentation.

Also from Appalachian and Ozark folklore books. If you have ancestors from New England, Maryland, Louisiana, the Carolinas, the Appalachians or Ozarks with any of these last names — look at your family tree to determine if your ancestor might have been a witch! The Witch Trials in Ireland were fewer than those elsewhere in Europe, but they still happened.

There were also healers, herbalists, and wise men and women who were labeled as witches in the name of superstition. Some survived the accusations, while others avoided them entirely. It is up to you to decide if your ancestors were witches by your definition or not. Names were gathered from public documentation of Witch Trials and folklore books. It might bring up some strong emotions. Questions about why your ancestor was perhaps wrong accused or falsely imprisoned or executed.

Sometimes the same men and women who helped their villages and neighbors with herbal cures were then accused of witchcraft. The same people they helped turned their backs on them and threw them to the wolves, so to speak. Superstition and fear ran rampant in Medieval Times through the Early Modern Period, and people of many walks of life were accused of witchcraft.

The poor, rich, old, young, ugly, beautiful, female or male, were all accused of maleficia malevolent witchcraft. There are various theories as to why the Witch Trials in Europe and the U. The truth is there were plenty of reasons why each tragedy occurred, but the main reasons were fear and control.

Samhain season rolls around and everyone is talking about ancestors and the thinning of the veil. Particularly the women and men who paved the way for us to have religious freedom. Some of our own ancestors died tragically because of superstition and greed. Keep a small space on your altar for your ancestors especially any accused witches. When you need extra courage in the face of adversity and persecution for your beliefs, pray to your ancestors for protection and strength.

My maiden last name is Dyer and my family is from Connecticut. How would I go about searching this information please? Hi My name is Hailie, Im Only I have a very strong connection with magical thing and lifestyle. I have also come to Learn that i have a somewhat Strong seance of Intuition. The only person i know that has that type of Psychic gift is my grandma whom i live with. Was there a connection there? Where did the surname Dye come from on the American Witches list?

I have tried to research this and I come up with Dyer but not Dye. My last name is Leacy but the spelling has been changed throughout many times Lacey Leesey and here were more. King Robert the Bruce is my 21st GG. I live in the Shenandoah Valley in Virginia. All of the family names that you have above are connected. I have been researching these names for 4 years now. If you would like to connect, my email is leslie. Does anyone have any information about Kifer or Conger witches?

My great great grandmother Sephronia Conger was a hedge witch. Ann Pudeator Age: 70s Ann Pudeator was a widow who lived in Salem town where she also worked as a nurse and midwife. She had a reputation for being sharp-tongued and often quarreled with locals. Pudeator was accused of witchcraft in May of by Sarah Churchill and several other afflicted girls of Salem Village. Some of her medical supplies, such as foot ointments, were confiscated and introduced to the court as objects of the occult.

During her trial, Pudeator accused many of her accusers of lying. Pudeator was brought to trial on September 9 and executed on September 22, Like Bridget Bishop and many other witch trial victims, Wilmot Redd had also been accused of witchcraft before in She was an unpopular person around town because she often quarreled with others and had an abrasive personality.

Redd was accused of witchcraft in May of by the Salem Village afflicted girls and brought to Ingersoll Tavern in Salem Village for her examination. Redd was brought to trial in September and executed on September 22, Scott had seven children but only three survived childhood.

After her husband died in , Scott was left destitute and forced to beg from her neighbors. This made her unpopular with her neighbors.

A member of the Nelson family also sat on the grand jury that convicted her. Scott was brought to trial on September 17 and executed on September 22, He was also a well known fortune-teller and practitioner of English folk magic.

It is believed that his work in the occult led to his witchcraft accusation. Wardwell was accused in September of and arrested and jailed in Salem. Shortly after, his wife and daughters were also arrested. During his examination, he admitted to fortune-telling and dabbling in magic and said that the devil may have taken advantage of him for these reasons.

He then confessed to making a pact with the devil but later recanted his confession. Wardwell was brought to trial in mid-September and executed on September 22, Corey had a reputation for being a pious member of the community despite the well-known fact that she had a child out of wedlock in the s.

Martha Corey was also an outspoken critic of the Salem Witch Trials and stated many times that the afflicted girls were liars. When Giles Corey himself was accused of witchcraft and arrested in April, he refused to provide any more information on Martha or himself.

Martha Corey was brought to trial on September 9 and executed on September 22, , just three days after Giles Corey had been tortured to death for refusing to enter a plea. She lived in Topsfield and was considered a pious, well-respected member of the community. In April of , Mary Easty was accused of witchcraft, arrested but was then released in May.

She was accused again, a few days after her release, and arrested. She was examined and indicted on two charges of witchcraft. Easty was brought to trial on September 9 and executed on September 22, He had a reputation for being an angry, violent man and was once charged with murdering his farmhand in He was found guilty but only suffered a fine for his actions.

Many locals, including Thomas Putnam , suspected Corey had paid a bribe for his freedom. In April of , Giles Corey was accused of witchcraft after his wife, Martha Corey , had also been accused and arrested on the same charge. Giles Corey refused to enter a plea in an attempt to prevent his case from going to trial. He reportedly knew he was going to die, either in jail or on the gallows, and wanted to avoid being convicted before he did.

As a result, Giles Corey was tortured for three days in a field on Howard Street in Salem town in an attempt to force a plea out of him.

He died on the third day of his torture on September 19, Elizabeth Proctor Brought to trial on August 5 and found guilty. She was sentenced to death but the execution was delayed due to her pregnancy. She gave birth in January was released from prison in May, Abigail Faulkner, Sr Brought to trial on September 17 and found guilty. She was released from prison in March, Mary Post Brought to trial in January, and found guilty.

She was sentenced to death but pardoned by Governor Phips. Sarah Wardwell Brought to trial on January 10, and found guilty. Elizabeth Johnson Jr Brought to trial in January, and found guilty. Dorcas Hoar Brought to trial on September 9, and found guilty.

She was sentenced to death but never executed. Roger Toothaker Died in jail in Boston on June 16, John Alden Jr. Edward Bishop Jr. Other victims include two dogs who were shot or killed after being suspected of witchcraft.

Most of the Salem Witch Trials victims were women but men were accused and executed too. Although some of the early victims were poor social outcasts from Salem Village, the accusations slowly spread to all types of people from all types of backgrounds, according to the book Death in Salem: The Private Lives Behind the Witch Hunt :.

Everyone knew that witchcraft was largely a female perversity, but the reasoning stopped there. The over one hundred and fifty people singled out for social and legal ostracism over the course of included every age, social echelon, and background: rich and poor, young and old, feeble and sharp-witted. The logic seems to have been that physical contact with an actual witch would draw the evil spirits back out of the victim.

The ulterior reasons for their persecution sometimes surfaced at the trial. Often it was little more than a bad reputation or malicious gossip, repackaged and embroidered over decades.

A human frailty or eccentricity might be trotted out as evidence. Due to the large number of accused witches, the prisoners were kept in multiple jails in Salem, Ipswich and Boston. According to the book, A Delusion of Satan: The Full Story of the Salem Witch Trials , the accused witches were considered dangerous prisoners and were kept in dungeons underneath the jails away from the regular prisoners:. These were perpetually dark, bitterly cold, and so damp that water ran down the walls.

They reeked of unwashed human bodies and excrement. They enclosed as much agony as anywhere human beings could have lived. The stone dungeons of Salem Town prison were discovered in the s in St. Certainly they were a breeding ground for disease…But accused witches were worse off than the other unfortunates [other prisoners. The dungeons forever changed people and the ones who were lucky enough to survive the prison or escape the gallows often suffered for the rest of their lives.

Interior of the old dungeon, old witch jail, Salem, Mass, circa Such is the case with Dorcas Good, the four-year-old daughter of Sarah Good who was accused of witchcraft in March of and spent seven to eight months in jail before being released, according to the book The Salem Witch Trials Reader:.

While in prison, the accused were repeatedly humiliated by being forced to undergo physical examinations of their bodies. During the examinations the prisoners, who were mostly elderly, were stripped naked in front of a group of people and their bodies were poked and prodded and any suspicious marks or moles found were pricked with needles.

Upham describes his disgust over this treatment of the prisoners:. The results of the examinations were reduced to written reports, going into details, and, among other evidences in the trials, spread before the court and jury. There they were questioned by a judge in front of a jury, which decided whether or not to indict the accused on charges of witchcraft. The trials were then held in the Salem courthouse which was located in the center of Washington Street about feet south of Lynde Street, opposite of where the Masonic Temple now stands.

This courthouse was torn down in but a plaque dedicated to the courthouse can still be seen today on the wall of the Masonic Temple on Washington Street. The victims were hanged by the neck by a rope tied to a tree. Contrary to popular belief, none of the victims were burned at the stake.

The reason is because English law only allowed death by burning to be used against men who committed high treason and only after they had been hanged until almost dead, quartered and drawn. The English considered it an unacceptable death for women since it involved nudity. Burning at the stake was more popular in countries with a strong Catholic church because it did not involve the shedding of blood, which was not allowed in the Roman Catholic doctrine, and it ensured that the victim would not have a body to take with them to the after life.

Upham for the Peabody Historical Society in As convicted witches, they were not allowed a Christian burial in consecrated ground. Relatives of several victims: Rebecca Nurse, John Proctor and George Jacobs, reportedly retrieved the bodies of their loved one and gave them a Christian burial on the family property.

It is not known what happened to the unclaimed bodies, or if there were any unclaimed bodies, but if there are they are most likely still buried in shallow graves at the execution site. Almost immediately after the Salem Witch Trials came to an end, the residents of Salem began to feel ashamed of what happened during the witch hunt. They still believed in witches and the Devil, but they had doubts that so many people could have been guilty of the crime and they feared that many innocent people had been put to death.

The colony also been to suffer from frequent droughts, crop failures, smallpox outbreaks, Native-American attacks and other disasters and the colonists worried that the mistakes made during the Salem Witch Trials had angered God. On December 17, , Governor Stoughton issued a proclamation in hopes of making amends with God.

The proclamation suggested that there should be:. The colony held the day of prayer on January 15, , which was known as the Day of Official Humiliation. On October 17, , at the urging of the surviving convicted witches and their families, the colony passed a bill clearing some of the names of the convicted witches.

Not every victim was named in the bill though because some families of the victims did not want their family member listed. The bill states:. An act to remove the attainders of George Burroughs and others for Witchcraft. For as much in the year of Our Lord, one thousand six hundred and ninety-two several towns within the Province were infested with a horrible witchcraft or possessions of devils.

The influence and energy of the evil spirit so great at that time acting in and upon those who were the principal accusers and witnesses proceeding so far as to cause a prosecution to be had of persons of known and good reputation which caused a great dissatisfaction and a stop to be put thereunto until their majesties pleasure should be known therein; and upon a representation thereof accordingly made, her late Majesty, Queen Mary, the Second of Blessed Memory, by her Royal letter given at her court at Whitehall the fifteenth of April, , was graciously pleased to approve the care and circumspection therein; and to will and require that in all proceedings against persons accused for witchcraft, or being possessed by the Devil, the greatest moderation and all due circumspection be used so far as the same may be without impediment to the ordinary course of justice.

And some of the principal accusers and witnesses in those dark and severe prosecutions have since discovered themselves to be persons of profligate and vicious conversations.

Upon the humble petition and suit of several of said persons and of the children of others of them whose parents were executed. Be it declared and enacted by His Excellency, the Governor, Council and Representatives authority of the same, That the several convictions, in General Court assembled, and by the judgments and attainders against the said George Burroughs, John Proctor, George Jacobs, John Willard, Giles Corey, Martha Corey, Rebecca Nurse, Sarah Good, Elizabeth Howe, Mary Easty, Sarah Wildes, Abigail Hobbs,Samuel Wardwell, Mary Parker, Martha Carrier, Abigail Faulkner, Anne Foster, Rebecca Eames, Mary Post, Mary Lacey, Mary Bradbury, Dorcas Hoar, and any of them be and are hereby reversed made and declared to be null and void to all intents, constitutionalism and purposes whatsoever as if no such convictions, judgments and attainders had ever been had or given, and that no penalties or forfeitures of goods or chattels be by the said judgments and attainders or either of them had or incurred.