#Ann Hibbins

[bizarrepotpourri]

Anne Hibbins (1656) was censured by Boston church leaders for her contentious behavior in repeatedly accusing a local craftsman of overcharging for his labor. She was furthermore charged with supplanting her husband’s position in dealing with this problem, violating the puritan belief that wives should submit themselves to the leadership of their husbands. For this offense, she was unrepentant. She was removed from membership in the Boston church and found guilty of witchcraft in 1654 after the death of her husband. Although the magistrates denied the initial verdict, a second trial was held before the Massachusetts Great and General Court. Anne Hibbins was convicted a second time of witchcraft and executed in 1656. In his assessment of this tragedy, Governor Thomas Hutchinson, in his "History of Massachusetts," places the blame for this conviction upon the people of Boston who disliked Anne Hibbin’s contentious nature. He wrote that the trial and the condemnation of Anne Hibbins for withcraft was "a most remarkable occurrence in the colony," for he found that it was her temper and argumentative nature that caused her neighbors to accuse her of being a witch.

From  The Salem Witch Trials: a Reference Guide by K. David Goss

This sounds like I'd be the local headache as well, but to be honest, it runs in the family.

Even if my mother wasn't saying that grandma was a witch with a capital B.

[venicepearl]

Hanging of Hibbins on Boston Common, June 19, 1656. Sketch by F.T. Merril, 1886

Ann Hibbins (also spelled Hibbons or Hibbens) was a woman executed for witchcraft in Boston, Massachusetts, on June 19, 1656. Her death by hanging was the third for witchcraft in Boston and predated the Salem witch trials of 1692. Hibbins was later fictionalized in Nathaniel Hawthorne's famous novel The Scarlet Letter. A wealthy widow, Hibbins was the sister-in-law by marriage to Massachusetts governor Richard Bellingham. Her sentence was handed down by Governor John Endicott.

[anglerflsh]

name every witch that’s been hunted, I’ll wait /j

Veronika of Desenice d. 1425 Theoris of Lemnos before 323 BC Liu Ju d. 91 BC Petronilla de Meath c. 1300–1324 Stedelen d. c. 1400 Kolgrim c. d. 1407 Matteuccia de Francesco d. 1428 Agnes Bernauer c. 1410–1435 Guirandana de Lay d. 1461 Gentile Budrioli d. 14 July 1498 Narbona Dacal d. 1498 Janet, Lady Glamis d. 1537 Gyde Spandemager d. 1543 Lasses Birgitta d. 1550 Agnes Waterhouse c. 1503–1566 Polissena of San Macario d. 1571 Janet Boyman d. 1572 Gilles Garnier d. 1573 Soulmother of Küssnacht d. 1577 Violet Mar d. 1577 Thomas Doughty d. 1578 Ursula Kemp c. 1525–1582 Elisabeth Plainacher 1513–1583 Walpurga Hausmannin d. 1587 Anna Koldings d. 1590 Rebecca Lemp d. 1590 Anne Pedersdotter d. 1590 Kerstin Gabrielsdotter d. 1590 Agnes Sampson d. 1591 Marigje Arriens c. 1520–1591 Witches of Warboys d. 1593 Allison Balfour d. 1594 Jean Delvaux d. 1595 Andrew Man d. 1598 Pappenheimer Family d. 1600 Mary Pannal d.1603 Merga Bien 1560s–1603 Mechteld ten Ham d. 1605 Nyzette Cheveron d. 1605 Franziska Soder d. 1606 Elin i Horsnäs d. 1611 Alice Nutter 1612 Pendle witches d. 1612 Evaline Gill d. 1616 Elspeth Reoch d. 1616 Margaret Cubbon (or Ine Quaine) d. 1617 Witches of Belvoir d. 1618 Sidonia von Borcke 1548–1620 Christenze Kruckow 1558–1621 Anne de Chantraine 1601–1622 Jón Rögnvaldsson d. 1625 Katharina Henot 1570–1627 Johannes Junius 1573–1628 Urbain Grandier 1590–1634 Johann Albrecht Adelgrief d. 1636 Maren Spliid c. 1600–1641 Elizabeth Clarke c. 1565–1645 Adrienne d'Heur 1585–1646 Alse Young c. 1600–1647 Margaret Jones 1648 Mary Johnson c. 1648 Alice Lake[13] 1620 – c. 1650 Mrs. Kendall[13] c. 1650 Jeane Gardiner d. 1651 Michée Chauderon d. 1652 Goodwife Knapp[15] d. 1653 Ann Hibbins 1656 Marketta Punasuomalainen 1600s–1658 Daniel Vuil d. 1661 Anna Roleffes c. 1600-1663 Goodwife Greensmith[13] d. 1663 Isabella Rigby d. 1666 Steven Maurer d. 1666 Lisbeth Nypan c. 1610–1670 Thomas Weir 1599–1670 Märet Jonsdotter 1644–1672 Anna Zippel d. 1676 Brita Zippel d. 1676 Malin Matsdotter 1613–1676 Anne Løset d. 1679 Peronne Goguillon d. 1679 Catherine Deshayes c. 1640–1680 Antti Tokoi d.1682 Ann Glover d. 1688 Jacob Distelzweig d. 1690 Alice Parker d. 1692 Ann Pudeator d. 1692 Bridget Bishop c. 1632–1692 Elizabeth Howe 1635–1692 George Burroughs c. 1650–1692 George Jacobs 1620–1692 Giles Corey c. 1611–1692 John Proctor c. 1632–1692 John Willard c. 1672–1692 Margaret Scott d. 1692 Martha Carrier d. 1692 Martha Corey 1620s–1692 Mary Eastey 1634–1692 Mary Parker d. 1692 Mima Renard d. 1692 Rebecca Nurse 1621–1692 Sarah Good 1655–1692 Sarah Wildes 1627–1692 Susannah Martin 1621–1692 Wilmot Redd 1600s–1692 Anne Palles 1619–1693 Viola Cantini 1668–1693 Paisley witches d. 1697 Elspeth McEwen d. 1698 Anna Eriksdotter 1624–1704 Laurien Magee 1689-1710 Mary Hicks 1716 Janet Horne d. 1727 Catherine Repond 1662–1731 Helena Curtens 1722–1738 Bertrand Guilladot d. 1742 Maria Renata Saenger von Mossau 1680–1749 Maria Pauer 1730s–1750 Ruth Osborne 1680–1751 Ursulina de Jesus d. 1754 Anna Göldi d. 1782 Maria da Conceição d. 1798 Leatherlips 1732–1810 Barbara Zdunk 1769–1811 Ama Hemmah d. 2010 Amina bint Abdulhalim Nassar d. 2011 Muree bin Ali Al Asiri d. 2012 Ahmed Kusane Hassan d. 2020

[cryptidyuu-boo]

So I’m currently reading “New England Legends & Folk Lore” by Samuel Adams Drake and between reading about the hangings of Anne Hutchinson and Ann Hibbins, two women falsely accused of “witchcraft” in the 1600’s...it gets me wondering how many ghosts or spirits may potentially be wandering about Boston Common.

I can’t say I have any knowledge or recollection of anyone ever mentioning to me they’ve seen something there or seen specters meandering about the Common or had paranormal experiences, but I wouldn’t be surprised. Apparently it was THE place for the Puritan government of Boston to hold their public executions.

At the very least it’s definitely something I’d want to put a pin in and look more into when I can, both from a historical and folkloric perspective as well as a potentially paranormal one.

[september-writes-blog]

Town of Salem: Moments Worth Remembering

Hey there.

I am aware not everyone is a fan of the game, but if you have no idea what it is all about then I suggest you read on.

Town of Salem is one of the most difficult yet exciting games I have ever played. It's not the usual third person shooter game, nor is it an ordinary role playing one. It is known as the game of lie-detecting and deception.

Concept: the Town is made of (usually) 15 players who are divided into factions. The first is the Townies (good guys), the Mafia (baddies) and the neutral ones.

Each person is assigned a random role. The town members dont know who is who, the Mafia know who is with them and who is against them. The townies must lynch and kill all the baddies before the Mafia end them up. The neutral roles must get their specific aim achieved before the end of the game.

The fact that the identities are hidden makes it a fun, thrilling game for those seeking his inner detective.

Unfortunately, you won't understand this post unless you have played it at least once.

Here are some of the moments that always brighten up my mood when I am down:

1- that one time I was a werewolf, and I was the only one left with another townie who went by the name Ann Hibbins. She had lost all hope and knew she and her teammates had already lost the game. But I decided to give them a draw: I would wait two more nights until the game is over so no one would win, and everyone would gain the same number of points in the end.

I promised them I would refrain from attacking Ann, and they all believed me. So during the last night, something weird took place: Right when the game was almost over, the words "you attacked someone" came on my screen. I thought it was some kind of glitch cause I never attacked her.

So after my victory over the town and Mafia, I texted Ann and she told me how her clumsy finger accidentally pressed the button which led her to my house at night (any person who visits the werewolf during the full moon instantly dies). Her clumsiness caused her entire team to lose. :)

2- It was one ordinary game when someone died first night. Next morning, the screen said: John Proctor died last night. He was killed my a member of the Mafia. He was also stabbed by a serial killer. He was also killed by a veteran. He also apparently committed suicide. We found a will next to their body...

3- the most clever pun I ever witnessed in the game.

One player was called Cotton Mather. He was a fundamental town investigative role, and he had essential information for the players. But unfortunately he died just before he could spread his news around. So I said: Aw, he had good stuff to announce.

Then this one smart player goes: it doesn't Mather anymore. :)

[ofgraveconcern]

19th June 1603, German women Merga Bien arrested for witchcraft in Fulda, Germany, part of Fulda witch trials. One of the four major witch trials in German history, alongside the Trier, Würzburg, and Bamberg witch trials. Placed in jail she was forced to admit to killing her second husband and their children, alongside intercourse with the Devil, which her current pregnancy at the time of her arrest, was considered the result of. Found guilty she was burned alive at the stake in Fulda in the autumn of 1603. The Fulda Witchtrials also claimed the lives of a further 249 people. 19th June 1656, wealthy widow Ann Hibbins is executed by hanging for witchcraft in Boston, Massachusetts. Her death was the third hanging for witchcraft in Boston history, with the first two being Margaret Jones, of Charlestown in 1648, and Goodwife Kendall, of Cambridge in 1650. Hibbins was later fictionalized in ‘The Scarlet Letter’ by Nathaniel Hawthorne. The main character Hester Prynne, frequently meets a witch named Mistress Hibbins. All art shown is for sale at: www.ofgraveconcern.com/witchcraftandmagic You are invited to follow @ofgrave.concern for more tales of the gothic, strange and macabre. #darkillustration #darkillustrations #witchcrafthistory #witchhistory #17thcentury #17thcenturyart #superstitions #folklore #strangehistory #witchtrials #witchfindergeneral #folklore #witchartist #morbidhistory #witchtrials1692 #historyofwitchcraft #witchpersecution #salemmassachusetts #salemwitch #salemwitchtrials #witchcraft #witchcrafttrials #historyofwitches #newenglandhistory #newenglandwitch #newenglandwitches #colonialnewengland #witchesofnewengland #newengland #fulda https://www.instagram.com/p/CQRK7yqHlC0/?utm_medium=tumblr

[jeffgoldblumsmulletinthe90s]

Alright, strap in folks, we’re gonna do this.

So first off, the Salem Witch Trials are not the end-all, be-all of witchcraft accusations or executions in the New England colonies. There are some really, really excellent books out there to read and they have FANTASTIC titles like The Devil in the Shape of a Woman and Entertaining Satan. But that doesn’t beat the titles of the HISTORICAL documents which include “Memorable Providences, Relating to Witchcrafts and Possessions: A Faithful Account of many Wonderful and Surprising Things, that have befallen several Bewitched and Possessed Persons in New-England” which you can read for free if you want a headache.

Now, the Spanish Inquisition has been invoked as a parallel and that’s kind of fair-ish because there were major racial and economic motivations behind the Inquisition. Jews and Muslims were targeted by the Inquisition in order to take their wealth and land and put it into Catholic hands, let’s be real. (Do I need to cite a source here? Just Google “Spanish Inquisition economics.”)

(Also don’t think the Spanish were the only people doing this. But Southern Europe had the lowest ratio of trials to executions for this witch hunt business. I know I just linked y’all to Wikipedia but they have a little TABLE and everything it’s so tidy.)

Anyway, the Puritans had a lot in common with the Papists on this one, because those accused of witchcraft in New England were often accused for social, racial, and economic reasons. They were usually women (usually married or widowed, but Uppity), sometimes not white, often poor but with land or some occupation. Accusations of witchcraft were a thing of courts in New England because the Puritans and related religious movements that flourished in the colonies treated their religion AS LAW. (Most of the colonies in New England were founded as religious colonies.)

(There is a read more here, because I continue this for many more paragraphs.)

It should be said that unlike the French who found ways to buddy with native populations, the Puritans were really terrified by the PAGANS IN WIGWAMS that lived around them. Not just “they will probably try to kill us for stealing their land” terrified but “These aren’t human beings, these are DEMONS” terrified — I’m not saying that belief was justified AT ALL, just that Puritans believed that shit. The fear was also that really at all times, Satan was trying to get them. On this one, I will say, if you have driven backroads in the middle of the night in New England, you can vaguely understand where some of these fears might have been coming from. The other thing is just Racism, tbh. 

Anyway, back to the history stuff, the England and New England witch hunts were largely spurred by the work of Matthew Hopkins, an English Puritan who devised and wrote about things like witches’ marks and the water test in his book The Discovery of Witches. This was like… treated as a legal reference. It was taken very seriously!

It also becomes like a textbook for Puritan Americans, who can kind of get away with crazier shit because there’s no one around to tell them not to, where England is more developed and all that. The colonies are a little more of a… free-for-all. And the accusations of witchcraft would largely arise from small communities and then be escalated to higher and higher courts — as happened in the Salem Witch Trials.

Mary Webster, an accused witch to whom Margaret Atwood dedicated “The Handmaid’s Tale,” was from Hadley, Mass. and her case was escalated all the way to the Boston courts (that would be on the other side of the state). The people in Hadley tried to hang her, it didn’t work. She survived.

Ann Hibbins, on whose life and death Nathaniel Hawthorne based “The Scarlet Letter,” was hung in Boston Commons accused of witchcraft basically because she tried to sue some guys who worked on her house. 

Their cases and many deaths, like Goody Ann Glover’s (a widowed Irish Catholic woman executed in Boston), all preceded the Salem Witch Trials! They’re sort of isolated incidents, probably with other incidents that are lost to the sands of time because people didn’t even bother with the court system — please note that it was the people of Hadley and not the Boston courts that tried to hang Mary Webster. 

We have records of many cases of American witchcraft only because there were court cases and we still have those courts’ records. And because the Salem Witch Trials really pissed off many of its survivors. (More on that in a minute!)

Anyway, while plenty of the victims of America’s witch hunts were easy prey, some of them were not. And certainly the death of Giles Corey was gruesome and unnecessary enough for people to be like “What… the fuck?” and he was tortured to death more than 40 years after Ann Hibbins was hanged.

Anyway, the idea of a secular court system in the USA really sprang out of (among other things, obviously this wasn’t the only factor) these really violent and high-profile witchcraft cases — people who were falsely accused and then killed by a court system that was running on religious laws and texts. This is all going on in the late 1600s and early 1700s just as America is starting to warm to the idea of being AMERICA. 

In a lovely reversal on Hopkins, American Robert Calef goes to London to publish a book with a title that plays off of Cotton Mathers’ writing (Mathers being the guy who wrote “Memorable Providences, Relating to Witchcrafts and Possessions” which was mentioned above) and Calef is just writing about what a total SHITSHOW the Salem Witch Trials were. And legal proceedings continue through the early 18th century wherein survivors and descendants want people exonerated and for justice to be served after that total shitshow. There was a lot of backlash for Calef, but his book was pretty popular and it continued to be reprinted for decades.

(I could get more into the Mathers family and their influential power in Boston and how Cotton Mathers took Hopkins to a whole ‘nother level but you know just look at “Memorable Providences” for a hot second and you can just FEEL the evil energy coming out of Cotton Mathers.)

Now American secularism is hardly what it used to be, I’d say, but it’s still an important part of the founding government. And ideas of American secularism were first starting to be written about by Quakers and other groups at the same time that “witches” were being tried and murdered in the colonies.

Like there were really normal, sensible economic and social reasons that colonies were founded under certain religions, but everyone kind of agreed that things like the persecution of Quakers and the execution of innocent people in Massachusetts and Connecticut, etc. etc. etc. that just makes RELIGION look bad. The initial push for secularism in America was that religion needs to pure and not dirtied by worldly business like government (and… uhhhhhhh state-sanctioned murder).

The lovely idea of a “wall of separation between the garden of the church and the wilderness of the world” was written by the Baptist founder of Rhode Island in 1644, the same year that Hopkins started hunting witches in England.

Oh yeah, and Thomas Jefferson owned Calef’s book. Of course. No comment on Jefferson as a person, but he is the founding father most closely associated with that whole separation of church and state thing.

In conclusion: That was sure some crazy bullshit.

[tipsycad147]

Witch Trials - Witch Hunts

Ann Hibbins (d. 1656) was a prominent Boston woman convicted of witchcraft and executed. Her chief crime as a witch seemed to have been a bad temper, which was disliked by her neighbors.

Ann Hibbins was married to William Hibbins, a well-to-do merchant in Boston. She also was the sister of Richard Bellingham, deputy governor of Massachusetts, highly regarded as one of the leading politicians in the colonies. Ann and William Hibbins enjoyed respect and social status and attended the first church established in Boston.

William Hibbins suffered setbacks in business, and the family fortunes declined. According to accounts, that marked the beginning of Ann’s “witchcraft.” She was said to become increasingly ill-tempered, even toward her husband. She irritated others; the church also censured her, first with admonition and then with excommunication in 1640.

As long as her husband remained alive, Ann enjoyed a certain amount of protection from further prosecution. But after William died in 1654, Ann was soon charged with witchcraft. She declared herself not guilty and agreed to be tried. As part of her interrogation, she was stripped naked and searched for Witch’s Marks. Her house was ransacked for poppets by which she might have been working her evil spells.

Though a prominent and well-connected woman, others were initially afraid to speak on her behalf, lest they, too, be accused of witchcraft. One prominent citizen, Joshua Scottow, did speak out on her behalf and was swiftly punished. Scottow was forced to write an apology to the court.

Others then also came out in defense of Hibbins, calling her a “saint,” not a witch. The defenses did no good, and Hibbins was hanged at the end of may 1656.

FURTHER READING :

Demos, John Putnam. Entertaining Satan: Witchcraft and the Culture of Early New England. New York: Oxford University Press, 2004.

Upham, Charles. History of Witchcraft and Salem Village. Boston: Wiggin and Lunt, 1867.

Taken from : The Encyclopedia of Witches, Witchcraft and Wicca – written by Rosemary Ellen Guiley – Copyright © 1989, 1999, 2008 by Visionary Living, Inc.

http://occult-world.com/witch-trials-witch-hunts/hibbins-ann/

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killing ann hibbins with my own bare hands

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Nickname(s): Sum, Syrocco, Sy, Smol Mom, Ann (as in Ann Hibbins because tos)

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[ahistoryfangirl]

The Boston Witch Trials

The Salem Witch Trials are one of the most (in)famous events in American history. There are plays, movies and books about it, and no American schoolkid made it to junior high without learning about them. But did you know that there were actually witch trials held about 30 miles to the south of Salem, in Boston? My guest today is Nancy Mades-Byrd, host of The Witch Hunt Podcast, who lives in Salem, and who has studied the period her entire life. Nancy tells me about what happened in the Boston Witch Trials, why they maybe didn’t capture the national imagination in the same way, and what influence they had on the little town to its north.

The story of Goody Glover

The most famous witch trial in Boston happened in the city’s North End, now beloved by tourists and Bostonians alike for its Italian culture. But in the 17th century, when Boston was a Puritan theocracy, witch trials were not uncommon. The last and most famous victim to be hanged was an Irish Catholic woman named Ann Goody Glover, who died on November 16, 1688. Glover, a widow, had been deported from Ireland to Barbados with her daughter, expelled by Cromwell during his occupation of Ireland, and then eventually made her way to Boston. She and her daughter worked as servants in the home of John Goodwin, neither of them speaking English (They were Gaelic). That played a huge part in Goody Glover’s tragic story, as did the treatment of the Irish in Boston at the time. As Nancy told me, “The only thing Boston hated more than a witch was a Catholic.”

What does a doctor prescribe for witchcraft affliction?

Goody Glover’s downfall all began when the Goodwin children began coming down with bizarre symptoms. They were having seizures, running around on all fours and making guttural noises, throwing religious books around the house. And so the family doctor diagnosed them with the 100% legitimate medical condition of witchcraft affliction. And while we may think of witchcraft accusations as common because of their historical prominence, Nancy told me only 80 people were accused of witchcraft in the 17th century, most of them in Connecticut. But even though not too many people were executed for witchcraft, everyone still believed in witches, so the doctor’s diagnosis wasn’t too beyond the pale. And there was even a prescription for those under the spell of a witch: fasting and prayer.

The Boston Witch Trials and Cotton Mather

A figure who would be made famous for his role in the Salem Witch Trials, Rev. Cotton Mather, took an active interest in Ann Glover’s case as well. He took the 13-year-old daughter Martha into his home to study her condition, and she’s the one to finger Ann as the one who’s afflicting her. And as Nancy tells me, Ann didn’t have much of a chance, given the language barrier. Cotton Mather then went on to write a book about the trial, which became a 17th-century bestseller, and almost certainly would have become a well-known tale in Salem. But Nancy says the Salem girls weren’t simply copying the Goodwin children. Historians now believe both groups of kids were suffering from something called mass psychogenic disorder, a sort of group mental illness that has popped up throughout history.

Half-Hanged Mary and other scapegoats

The Salem Witch Trials were of course the most famous and most extensive, with Nancy noting that some 200 people were accused of being witches, but Boston and Salem weren’t the only places suffering from witch hysteria. Nancy talks about the story of Half-Hanged Mary in Connecticut, and what was happening in Europe, where as many as 60,000 people may have been killed as accused witches between 1630 and 1660. Nancy is so knowledgeable about this slice of history, and I highly recommend everyone check out her Witch Hunt Podcast. As this episode proves, there’s so much left to learn about a time in history we all studied in school.

Outline of This Episode

[2:37] The most famous witch trial case in Boston

[3:59] Ann Glover’s story

[9:03] The trial of Goody Glover

[12:25] The history of mass psychogenic disorder

[16:01] The story of Ann Hibbins

[18:30] Other witch trial cases in America

[21:00] Nancy’s Witch Hunt Podcast

[22:52] Famous scapegoats

Resources & People Mentioned

Witch Hunt Podcast

Brainy Byrd Media

Ann Glover

Ann Hibbins

Half-Hanged Mary

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