~Notable Dates~

July

Death of Nostradamus, 1566

Trial of Joan Prentice, who was accused of sending an imp in the form of a ferret to bite children, 1549

Independence Day

Conviction of Witches at Chelmsford, England, 1589

Sacred to Maat, Egyptian Goddess of wisdom and justice.

Scott Cunningham initiated into the Ancient Pictish Gaelic Way, 1981

Death of Herman Slater, proprietor of the store Magickal Childe in New York, 1992

Birthday of Amber K, Wiccan author

Birthday of Dr John Dee and Dr Margaret Murray.

Sacred as the birthdate of Osiris, Egyptian God of fertility and harvests.

First recorded appearance of crop circles on Silbury Hill, England, 1988

First airing of The Witching Hour, a Pagan radio show on WONX in Evanston, Illinois, 1992

Rebecca Nurse hanged in Salem, Massachusetts, 1692

Sacred as the birth date of Isis, Egyptian Great Goddess.

Lord Hunterford executed in England for treason for consulting Mother Roche, a Witch, and speculating on the king's death, 1540

Northamptonshire Witches condemned, 1612

Death of Pope Innocent III, who issued famous anti-Witchcraft bull Summis Desiderantes Affectibus, 1492

Confession of Witches at first of four major Witch trials in Chelmsford, England, 1566

John Preston becomes the first of the "Malkin Tower" Witches to be hanged, 1612.

Sacred to Hatshepsut, Egyptian Goddess of healing.

Agnes Waterhouse hanged, 1566; one of the Chelmsford Witches tried in the first major trial after the institution of the Elizabethan statute against Witchcraft.

Trial of Marion la Droituriere for employing Margot de la Barre to make her ex-lover impotent with his new wife, 1390; one of the first trials of lower-class women for ritual magic

Birthday of HP Blavatsky, founder of the Theosophical Society

Brithday of Ellen Evert Hopman, Druid herbalist