* 1612 – The " Samlesbury witches ", three women from the Lancashire village of Samlesbury, England, are put on trial, accused for practicing witchcraft, one of the most famous witch trials in English history.

The Pendle witch trials of 1612 are among the most famous witch trials in English history.

This connection to folklore is further noted in the ganguro offshoot style called yamanba, named after a famous story about a mountain witch.

In 1692, Stamford was home to a less famous witch trial than the well-known Salem witch trials, which also occurred in 1692.

The book was popular amongst both Catholics and Protestants, and was one of the books used at the famous Salem witch trials of 1692.

Perhaps the most famous witch finder was a man named Matthew Hopkins ( ca.

The highest were in Salem, Massachusetts ( on Gallows Hill, the famous site of the execution of 13 women and 6 men for witchcraft in 1692 during the Salem witch trials, where the tradition of bonfires in celebration had persisted ), composed of as many as forty tiers of barrels ; these are the tallest bonfires ever recorded.

Despite its controversy and the fact that the cast included Steve Carlson, Jane Elliot ( fresh from her run as Tracy on GH & Carrie on GL ), and Lara Parker ( famous as the witch Angelique on the cult Dark Shadows ) and that it was produced and sometimes directed by daytime veteran actress Susan Flannery, A New Day in Eden only lasted 13 episodes, and its cliffhanger left the question of who was the town's serial rapist up in the air.

Pendle Hill is famous for its links to three events which took place in the 17th century: the Pendle witch trials ( 1612 ), Richard Towneley's barometer experiment ( 1661 ), and the claimed visitation to George Fox ( 1652 ), which led to the foundation of the Quaker movement.

The local witch, Erzulie Gogol, is a Voodoo mambo complete with personal zombie ( in her case, that of the former ruler of the principality, Baron Saturday, who himself shares a name with a famous Voodoo god ) and the local food is basically Cajun cuisine, including gumbo.

In widespread political trials (" witch hunting ") in democratic countries, such as in the famous House Committee on Un-American Activities in the 1940s, damage was said to occur in both directions, i. e., not only the lives, families and professional activities of a number of individuals were wrecked by the public exposure, but also the political institutions of individual rights and freedom in the USA were also similarly damaged by the Committee's activities.

The Council concludes that the Plague is the product of witchcraft, and calls for a famous witch hunter ( Frank Finlay ).

According to the legends, the Lysa Hora hill is the largest and most famous location of the mystical " bald mountain "-a traditional site of the witch gatherings.

Tutored by Ms. Thorpp, another famous English witch, V has had a chance to fully explore what it is like to be a witch and uses her abilities to their full potential.

Rivet Hed is a performer juggernaut formerly known as Marvin Garden and possibly America's most famous witch.

Salmon has also applied his account of mythical objects to Peter Geach's famous problem of uncovering the logical form of the particular sentence, " Hob thinks a witch has blighted Bob's mare, and Nob wonders whether she ( the same witch ) killed Cob's sow ".

The famous victims of Maximinus ' witch hunt were Marinus ( attorney ), Cethegeus senator, the young Lollianus ( son of the former praefectus Lampadius ), two noblewomen, Claritas and Flaviana, Paphius and Cornelius senators, Campensis haruspex and others.

The name of Hascombe village translates as Hægtesse combe meaning " valley of the hag " and this name once referred to the location of a famous witch.

The trial will be held, probably the first week of March, in the famous Old Bailey central criminal court where Klaus Fuchs, the naturalized British German born scientist who succeeded in giving American and British atomic bomb secrets to Russia and thereby changed world history during the 1950s, was sentenced to 14 years in prison.

Exhibits include the prison's role in housing prisoners of war from the Napoleonic Wars and the War of 1812, manacles and weapons, memorabilia, clothing and uniforms, famous prisoners, and the changed focus of the prison.

The reference to drugs seen in the prison sequence is somewhat daring for the time ( since the production code, established in 1930, forbade the depiction of illegal drug use in films ); Chaplin had made drug references before in one of his most famous short films, Easy Street, released in 1917.

Dartmoor and other prisons had been built for them ; the prison most famous for straw marquetry was Norman Cross, Huntingdon.

Wildeblood had been convicted and sent to prison, while Winter and Trevor-Roper were more respectable: Winter was director of the Fitzwilliam Museum and Trevor-Roper was a distinguished eye surgeon and brother of the famous historian Hugh Trevor-Roper.

Leavenworth is the home of many detention centers and prisons, including the Leavenworth federal prison for which the city is most famous, and several smaller jails and prisons, including the city and county jails, a Federal Detention Center, and the military's maximum security prison, the United States Disciplinary Barracks.

During the 1770s the prison reformer John Howard conducted his famous survey of prisons and gaols, culminating in his 1777 work The State of the Prisons.

In the short term this led to a 39 % reduction in the number of prisons in England, including some famous castle prisons such as Norwich ; over the coming years, centralisation and changes in prison design led to the closure of most remaining castle prisons.

Luciano used his influence to help get the materials to build a church at the prison, which became famous for being one of the only freestanding churches in the New York State correctional system and also for the fact that on the church's altar are two of the original doors from the Victoria, the ship of Ferdinand Magellan.

Among its famous inmates were the influential revolutionary poet Vladimir Mayakovsky, a Russian revolutionary Nikolai Bauman, the founder of the KGB Felix Dzerzhinsky ( who was one of the few individuals to stage a successful escape from the prison ), and the writers Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn and Yevgenia Ginzburg.

The famous Finnish female writer Hella Wuolijoki has mentioned in her memoirs Enkä ollut vanki that the poem " Invictus " also inspired and encouraged her during her incarceration in Katajanokka / Skatudden prison in Helsinki at the end of World War II.

During a stay in prison he met the " Grand Admiral " and Doctor of Law Marco Vitale, the illegitimate son of a famous lawyer, who brought him into contact with some members of the middle class tired of the continuing abuses of the tax collector and privileges of the nobility.

In prison he also composed his most famous poem, " Jeune captive ", a poem at once of enchantment and of despair.

The prison was locally famous for its shop featuring handmade wares of the prisoners.

By the small village on the Danube, famous as the prison of Richard the Lionhearted at the end of the twelfth century, he and his division were trapped in a narrow canyon, attacked by a Russian force at his rear and more Russians at his front.

Smith ’ s most famous solo execution was that of the Rugeley poisoner, Dr William Palmer for the murder of John Parsons Cook, before a large crowd at Stafford prison on 14 June 1856.

The Tower of London is famous as prison for political detainees, and Pontefract Castle at various times held Thomas of Lancaster ( 1322 ), Richard II ( 1400 ), Earl Rivers ( 1483 ), Scrope, Archbishop of York ( 1405 ), James I of Scotland ( 1405 – 1424 ) and Charles, Duke of Orléans ( 1417 – 1430 ).

Like any major prison, Fresnes has had its share of famous and notorious inmates.

* Carlos Coy ( South Park Mexican ), a famous Mexican-American rapper who is currently in prison, convicted of sexual assault.

The most famous incident of this kind took place on September 24, 1943, when a Home Army unit under Tadeusz Sztumberk-Rychter attacked Biłgoraj's prison, releasing 72 inmates, including Ludwik Ehrlich.

Harris ' knowledge of the prison came from her days as a newspaper reporter in the Bay Area, and her acquaintance with famous San Quentin prisoner Ed Morrell.

The famous Soviet geneticist Nikolai Vavilov was arrested in 1940 and died in prison in 1943.

Abandoned in the 18th century, the château still served, first as the site of the Vincennes porcelain manufactory, the precursor to Sèvres, then as a state prison, which housed the marquis de Sade, Diderot, Mirabeau, and the famous confidence man, Jean Henri Latude, as well as a community of nuns of the English Benedictine Congregation from Cambrai.