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All Essay plans for History A-Level Sceptical Cases and publication topic in Witchraft
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All Essay plans for Sceptical Cases and Sceptical publications topic in Witchcraft History Edexcel A-Level
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Sceptical Cases and10/06/2024 16:16
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Boy of Burton (1596-97)
(1696) Thomas Darling accused Alice Goodridge of cursing him during an exchange
the woods causing him to have fits and hallucinations--->Resulted in arrest of
Goodridge and her mother where she died in custody
After Goodridge's death the fits continued prompting the involvement of Exorcist John
who had falsely accused a Margaret Roper ten years earlier-->Darrel 'exorcized' Darling
then went to exorcize William Somers (1597)
(1597) After his exorcism, Somers claimed that he had been bewitched by 13 women led by
Freeman with the support of Darrel-->Somer's was later questioned and admitted that his p
was fraudulent and he and Darrel had worked together, lead to Samuel Harsnett writing a c
pamphlet of John Darrel (1599) resulting in an ongoing pamphlet war.
Alice Freeman was set free by Judge Edward Anderson, who also wrote to the Archbishop of
about Darrell's case--->Both Archbishop of Canterbury and Bishop of London examined Darre
Somers and Darling as witnesses who both admitted to their cases being untrue, Involvemen
Archbishop of Canterbury and Bishop of London makes case more prominent
However, people still believed in witchcraft-->Doesn't span the course very well if t
massive witch-hunts happened after this, last case was 1735
Demon Drummer of Tedworth (1662
(1662) John Mompesson arrested drummer William Drury for fraudulently begging for money
banging his drum to raise attention-->Drum was confiscated and sent to Mompesson's house
afterwards ghostly drumming and poltergeist events occurred at Mompesson's house
Strange occurrences continued for months even when Drury was jailed in Gloucester-->Mompesso
house became a tourist attraction where people visited to see the disturbances, King Charles ii sen
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