From Bob's archive: A land without people for a people without land?
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*Continuing my monthly post from the archive. This is from November 2008.
Since then, the Maldives have not succeeded in finding a new location, and
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2 days ago
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Kathleen's talk was excellent. What may have been the last witch trial in England took place in 1701 when Sarah Morduck was accused of causing a neighbour's illness at Bankside (near the site of the Tate Modern). Even though she was found not guilty, she was beaten up and left for dead. The motives for her being accused seem to have been financial rather than witchcraft. Still she was lucky compared to another woman who was hanged at Tyburn as a witch accused, among other things, of having sex with satan in the form of a squirrel!
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