On 3/11/1618 Joane Flower and her two daughters, Margaret & Philip were executed for witchcraft.

          These women thus being Diuels growne Most cunning in their Arts:
          With charmes and with inchanting spells they plaid most damned parts:
          They did forespeake, and Cattle kild, that neighbors could not thriue, 
          And oftentimes their Children young, of life they would depriue.
  
                  "Damnable Practices of three Lincolnshire Witches," in Pepys
                  collection, cited in A Ballad History of England, Roy Palmer

The last three women were executed for witchcraft on Sept 5, 1682;
England finally repealed witchcraft laws on 5/18/1736.
    [although Daniel R. Reitman writes: England had witchcraft laws on the books
    as late as 1951. They actually attempted a prosecution during World War II.]

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