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English woman executed for witchcraft
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Margaret Harkett (d. 19 February 1585 at Tyburn), was an English woman executed for witchcraft.
She was a sixty year old widow from Stanmore at the time she was arrested. She was accused of having bewitched two of her neighbors to death. She was given a death sentenced.
She was executed by hanging at Tyburn. She was the first person executed for Witchcraft in the city of London after the introduction of the Witchcraft Act of 1563
Her case was publicized in the pamphlet The Several Facts of Witchcraft approved and laid to the charge of Margaret Harkett (1585).
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