Thomas Oliver (Salem witch trials) the second charge in 1692 as the result of which she was hanged. When he left the colony for England he had a considerable amount of real property to which he returned after his first wife Mary's death. His estate included a house and sometime tavern in Salem, Massachusetts near the meeting house where after his death his widow Bridget Oliver Bishop was known for staying up late into the night entertaining her guests with playing shovelboard. During the scholarly reexaminations of the Salem witch trials during the 19th century, Bridget Bishop's claims on this estate were posited as the
Derenburg witch trials by the popular print and used as a deterrent example to others. Derenburg witch trials The Derenburg witch trials was a witch trials taking place in Derenburg in Germany in 1555. It resulted in the execution of 4 people (3 women and 1 man). There is only little documentation left of the actual trial, but it was made famous in contemporary Germany by a well known popular print, in which it was illustrated and described. Two women Gröbischen, and Gißlerschen, were executed by burning i October 1555 for witchcraft. Gröbischen had confessed to have been in a pact with Satan