Leicester boy
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leicester-boy-207-5566196
title:
Leicester boy
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The Leicester boy trial was one of Leicester's most notorious witchcraft cases, in which a thirteen-year-old boy publicly accused 15 women of causing a possession within him. The case took place in Husbands Bosworth, a small village not far from Leicester in 1616. John Smith fell into a series of violent fits, not even several men could hold him down. He made strange noises, and, as noted in a letter from Alderman Robert Heyrick to his brother Sir William, he would beat himself with inhuman stre
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Witchcraft trial of 15 women in Leicester, UK
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leicester_boy
date created:
2015-03-28T16:26:18Z
date modified:
2024-09-11T09:24:54Z
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