upney

Updated: May 28, 2025

The eldest of these boys, who was not over ten or twelve, told the court that he had seen his grandmother cause an oak to be blown up by the roots during a calm. The charges against Joan Upney concerned chiefly her dealings with toads, those against Joan Prentice, who lived in an Essex almshouse, had to do with ferrets.

Wallace Notestein - A History of Witchcraft in England from 1558 to 1718