Agnes Sampsoune
✓ Source-basedrisingScottish midwife, executed as a witch
Lived 1501 to 1591 · aged 90
Fame50.6
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Peak1830s
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Agnes Sampson was a Scottish healer and purported witch. Also known as the "Wise Wife of Keith", Sampson was executed during the North Berwick witch trials in the last decade of the 16th century.
Also inDeutsch
Photos 3
This image, from The History of Witches and Wizards (1720), depicts The Devil giving witches wax dolls
Ruins of the chapel at Keith Marischal. Agnes Sampson would have known this building
Agnes Sampson was supposed to have made a charm to raise a storm on the Forth and change the winds in the North SeaAbout this person
Status
deceased
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Lived 1501 to 1591 · aged 90
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