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Posted on 03/11/2021 5:10:34 AM PST by CheshireTheCat
The family of the Earl of Rutland enjoyed closure on this date in 1619* when two daughters of a notorious local sorceress were hanged at Lincoln Castle for bewitching the Rutland heirs to death.
Hotheaded enough in his youth to have joined Robert Devereux‘s ridiculous rebellion, Francis Manners had matured into a solid pillar of James I’s court by 1612 when he succeeded to the Earldom upon the passing of his brother.
Taking up his proper residence at the estate’s noble Belvoir Castle, lord and lady Manners had two noble sons and the consequent prospect of a robust progeniture to carry on the Rutland title, father to manful son onward into trackless posterity.
But witchery (as Shakespeare documented) went boldly abroad in those days. To the Rutlands’ grief it set its fell eye against the prosperity of their house.
Belvoir Castle was then “a continuall Pallace of entertainment, and a daily receptacle for all sorts both rich and poore, especially such auncient people as neighboured the same,” noted a pamphlet of the time.** “Amongst whom one Ioane [Joan] Flower, with her Daughters Margaret and Philip were not onely relieved at the first from thence, but quickly entertained as Char-women, and Margaret admitted as a continuall dweller in the Castle, looking both to the poultrey abroad and the wash-house within dores.”....
(Excerpt) Read more at executedtoday.com ...
In celebration of the one-year anniversary of 15 Days to Flatten the Curve and the witchcraft that inspired it and Salem Witch Hunt type hysteria that kept it going, today’s post is about alleged witches.
Hmmm. 'Daughter...Philip'. Maybe there was something unnatural going on.
Philip’s pronouns are Ze and Zhey.
CS Lewis once said that Torture does not reveal much about the subjects, but does tell you about the beliefs of the torturers.
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Two out of three have some horsepower.
The third is out to pasture LOL.
"The third is out to pasture LOL."
A different type of power....
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