Category: witch
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Monster Mash
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Famous Accused Witch: Petronella de Meath
Petronella de Meath was the first woman in Ireland to be burned for heresy in 1324.
She was the hand-maiden of Dame Alice Kyteler, the famous witch of Kilkenny. Dame Alice was married four times, and each husband died. On the death of her last husband, Sir John le Poer, Alice’s children accused her of using poison and sorcery to kill him. They brought their case before the Bishop of Ossory, Richard de Ledrede, in 1324 in the hope that their mother would be arrested and they would gain her fortune. It was ordered that Alice be burned at the stake.
Unfortunately for Petronella, Alice fled. This left a large, baying crowd standing outside Kilkenny City’s Tholsel. To satisfy the crowd, Petronella was made to take Alice’s place. She was burned alive and that would be the end of Petronella de Meath, the first woman in Ireland burned for heresy, a claim that should have fell to Dame Alice.
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Witches’ Sabbath
by Johann Jakob Wick, 16th Century
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Baba Yaga Costume
What a wonderful Baba Yaga costume on this trick-or-treater from a Halloween in the 1920s.
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#Inktober2020
Whether you draw every day or just once this month, take a prompt from an Inktober list and get into the Halloween mood!
From the official Inktober 
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Horror Junior Cinema Trivia: The Witches (1990)
After a test screening, The Witches author Roald Dahl angrily expressed to the producers how “appalled” he was at “the vulgarity, the bad taste” and “actual terror” in certain parts of the movie. He demanded that his name and his book’s title be removed from the film prior to release, but after receiving an apologetic, complimentary letter from Jim Henson, he grudgingly withdrew his threat.
Learn more behind-the-scenes trivia about this horror junior classic at IMDb: The Witches (1990) Trivia.
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Out with the old and in with the new
Hänsel und Gretel.
School wall chart, colour lithograph, undated, after Otto Kubel (1868–1951).
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The Magic Circle
by John William Waterhouse, shown at the Royal Academy in 1886, displayed in travelling art exhibits, large canvas 
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Witches’ Sabbath
by Francisco Goya, 1798
