Thanks for coming to candlelight crafts chat space. Here we intend to tell you about ourselves and the things we do and what candlelight craft will be doing in the near future. We will let you know all about the witch hunt trials and what witches lost their lives on that day.

Candlelight craft was started by myself Nick and partner Julia. I have been a Wiccan witch for over 20 years now. For most of my life I was a solitary witch practicing at home and in a local forest in North West London. Ever since I was a little boy I was seeing and hearing spirits which lead me down the path of Mediumship. I met my partner Julia and moved to Essex and joined a spiritualist church where I helped run. Still practicing wiccan I was finding hard to get supplies and even books at a reasonable price so I decided to open Candlelight craft ltd back in 2007. Since then we have gained a lot of following and regular customers some have become friends and some asking for help on what spells to do and when to do them. We are glad to help anybody and those just starting out in this field as we all know can be very hard and stressful. There are many paths to follow and not everyone will fit them all. so it is best to explore them all and find the one that suits you the best.

Due to the times and the credit crunch a lot of the new age shops have closed and now a lot have appeared online not all are owned and run by witches. This can be stressful if you have a question about the product and the answer is “I don’t know I just sell it”. We pride ourselves for owning and trying out the new products. As a Wiccan I hold a lot of the stuff and use it daily. We try and keep the prices down as much as possible because we want to supply the tools you need rather than sell you it for a fat profit. Yes we do need to make a profit too but keep it to a minimum.

The witch hunt trials hold a place in everyone’s heart as a lot of innocent people died. A lot of witches did lose their lives and where once the best things since slice bread. There is talk that the witch hunter general was a witch too (this is something that we will never know) But my views are one witch will never hurt another or anyone. 

 Was a yeoman with a wife named Cecily. In 1574 she was sentenced to be hanged because, as a “witch and enchantress,” she caused the deaths of three men and a grey gelding, and the temporary paralysis of a fourth man. The event was notorious enough to be commemorated in The Examination and Confession of a Notorious Witch named Mother Arnold, alias Whitecote, alias Glastonbury, at the Assise of Burntwood [Brentwood] in July 1574; who was hanged for witchcraft at Barking.

Elizabeth Harding, Barking , was charged in August 1579, with bewitching to death Cecily, the three year old daughter of William Miles and 12 colts worth £30 belonging to Michael Towler. She was also charged with causing great injury to John Goode’s wife Ellen. Found not guilty of Cecily’s death she was declared guilty on the other charges and sentenced to a year’s imprisonment. At the next March assizes, while still in prison at Colchester, she was again charged with the death of Cecily Miles, found guilty and hanged.

   In 1589 Joan Upney was found guilty of bewitching – so that they died, Alice Foster and Joan Harrolde. Her confessions recorded in the publication The Apprehension and confession of three notorious Witches, 1589 – the only surviving copy now resides in Lambeth Palace library, reports that in overhearing accusations made by John Harrolde and Richard Foster that she was a witch, she let loose her toads which pinched their wives causing their deaths. Joan Upney was hung along with Joan Prentice and Joan Cony at Chelmsford on the 5^th of July 1589.

In 1591 Ellen (or Helen) Gray was judged guilty on five charges of bewitching: Anne Bixon, who died; Richard Foster in his body (is this perhaps the same Mr Foster who accused Joan Upney?); a cow worth 32s. 4d. belonging to Henry Whood so that it died; Ellen Playt whereby she languished and four gallons of cream belonging to John Horold, so that the butter could not be made.

In the same year, Agnes Whitland apparently survived the damp and hunger of a year’s imprisonment in Colchester Castle to which she was sentenced. Acquitted the previous year of the death of infant William Greene, she was charged with bewitching to death John Collopp’s four year old daughter, Margaret, his sorrel mare and cow, and a cow belonging to Richard Foster. She was acquitted of two charges but found guilty of the deaths of John Collopp’s mare and cow.

In 1627 Barbara Awgar alias Bright, an Upminster widow, was committed for trail by Sir Nicholas Coote, a J.P living in Valence House. She was accused of bewitching “whereof he died” Andrew Parslowe but, maybe because of a growing scepticism among many educated people, she was acquitted.

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