Mary Baguley

Mary Baguley (died 1675) was an English woman who was executed for witchcraft.

She was from Wildboarclough in Cheshire. She was charged in April in 1675.

She was accused of having bewitched the schoolteacher Robert Hall of Wincle, and to have caused his death by use of magic.[1] She was claimed to have caused him to be ill for ten days, after which he started to sweat and cough blood, and of finnally having crushed his heart in bits, despite having not been physically in his presence.

She was executed by hanging in 1675. Her trial belonged to the last witch trials in England to have resulted in an execution, since witch trials gradually became fewer after the restoration of 1660.

References

  1. ^ Gregory J Durston, Crimen Exceptum: The English Witch Prosecution in Context
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