Season of the Witch: The Islandmagee Witches | Possession, Haunting & Ireland’s Last Witch Trial

In 1710, strange disturbances began inside Knowehead House on the Islandmagee peninsula in County Antrim. Stones appeared from nowhere, bedclothes were arranged into the shape of corpses, and a ragged childlike figure was seen moving through the house before apparently predicting the death of its elderly resident, Ann Haltridge. After Ann died, eighteen-year-old Mary Dunbar arrived and soon began suffering violent fits, claiming invisible women were attacking her and producing pins, feathers and other objects from her mouth. Her accusations eventually sent eight women to prison for witchcraft and drew a ninth person into a case that became Ireland’s last major witch trial.

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Research:

https://pure.ulster.ac.uk/ws/portalfiles/portal/215482763/Sneddon_Devlin_Islandmagee_Witches_Documents_online_.pdf

https://pure.ulster.ac.uk/en/publications/documents-from-the-trial-of-the-islandmagee-witches-at-carrickfer/