Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
Elizabeth Lowys
Standard Name: Lowys, Elizabeth
Connections
No connections available.
Timeline
1 May 1564: Elizabeth Lowys of Great Waltham, Essex,...
Building item
1 May 1564
Elizabeth Lowys
of Great Waltham, Essex, allegedly bewitched two children and an adult, who all died by this date; she pleaded her belly, but was found not pregnant and sentenced to hang.
Purkiss, Diane. The Witch in History: early modern and twentieth-century representations. Routledge, 1996.