Season of the Witch: The Killing of Ann Tennant | Victorian Witchcraft

On 15 September 1875, seventy-nine-year-old Ann Tennant left her home in the Warwickshire village of Long Compton to buy a loaf of bread. Minutes later she was attacked by agricultural labourer James Haywood, a neighbour who had become convinced that Ann and a number of other villagers were witches. His extraordinary claims would follow him from the harvest fields of Long Compton to the courtroom at Warwick and eventually to Broadmoor.

As summer wanes and the nights grow long, we turn to tales of witches, curses, and the old ways that never truly died. For centuries, harvest time has carried its own magic: charms for fields, blessings for homes, and darker stories of those who bent nature to their will.

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Research Links:

https://d23iiv8m8qvdxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/The-Full-Story-of-the-Murder-of-My-Great-Great-Grandmother-Ann-Tennant-of-Long-Compton.pdf

https://www.ourwarwickshire.org.uk/content/article/the-murder-of-my-great-great-grandmother-ann-tennant-of-long-compton-part-one

https://www.ourwarwickshire.org.uk/content/article/the-murder-of-ann-tennant-of-long-compton-part-two

https://www.ourwarwickshire.org.uk/content/article/murder-long-compton

https://research-information.bris.ac.uk/ws/portalfiles/portal/370166320/Julia_Phillips_Doctoral_Thesis.pdf

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