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Dummy, the Witch of Sible Hedingham : ウィキペディア英語版 | Dummy, the Witch of Sible Hedingham Dummy, the Witch of Sible Hedingham (c. 1788 – September 4, 1863) was the pseudonym of an unidentified elderly man who was one of the last people to be charged with witchcraft in England in the 19th century. A longtime resident of Sible Hedingham, Essex, a small farming village in the English countryside, he was a deaf-mute who earned a living as a local fortune teller. In September 1863, Dummy was accused by a local girl of bewitching her house in Ridgewell and dragged from ''The Swan'' tavern by a drunken mob. Thrown into a nearby brook as an "ordeal by water", he was also severely beaten with sticks before eventually being taken to a workhouse in Halstead where he died of pneumonia. Following an investigation by authorities, Emma Smith and Samuel Stammers were charged with his death and tried at the Chelmsford Assizes, where they were sentenced to six months imprisonment on March 8, 1864. ==References==
* *(Foxearth & District Local History Society – The Hedingham Witchcraft Case )
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