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White witch casts bad weather spell on Cromwell celebrations

The Ely Standard: “More than 300 English ‘witches’ died during a two-year reign of terror between 1645 and 1647, orchestrated by Cromwell’s self-titled Witchfinder General, Matthew Hopkins. Twenty people of both sexes were imprisoned in Ely Gaol (now Ely Museum on Market Street), accused of witchcraft.

Records survive documenting a woman from Sutton known only as Moore, was reported to the authorities for ‘bewitchings’ by two male villagers, but historians speculate the men, who were related to the lord of the manor, were involved in a dispute over common land and the woman was in fact, innocent. “

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