Joan Peterson, The Wapping Witch
She was tried for
witchcraft. Defence witnesses testified that she could
cure headaches and sick cattle. Prosecutuon witnesses
charged her with having a black cat and a squirrel as her
familiars. Her servant said she had seen her talking to
'a bushy' tailed fiend' and she had also been bewitched. Joan Peterson was hung at Tyburn on 12 April
1652.
(Note publication of book in 1652
The Witch of Wapping, London, Printed for Tm. Spring,
1652. Reel 103, Item 1076. Witchcraft in Europe and
America from Cornell University Library, Division of Rare
and Manuscript Collections.)
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