Elizabeth Hubbard (Salem witch trials) Elizabeth Hubbard (Salem witch trials) Elizabeth Hubbard was born in 1674 (death unknown). She was seventeen years old in the spring of 1692. Dr. Griggs, the town physician in Salem, Massachusetts, diagnosed Elizabeth and several other girls with the affliction of an “Evil Hand”. In simpler terms, the girls were said to be victims suffering from the powers of the Salem witches, trials lasting February 1692 to May 1693. During this time, twenty people were executed by hanging (except for one), fourteen of which were women. Elizabeth Hubbard was born in Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1674 and was one of
Derenburg witch trials 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 for eleven years. The sensationalist popular print claimed that Gröbischen was saved