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Sixty thousand people were executed for witchcraft during the early modern period, and one of the first was Agnes, also known as Mother Waterhouse, of Chelmsford, Essex. Agnes was the first woman to be executed in Britain under the Witchcraft Act of 1563. She confessed to having a cat called Satan to which she gave her own blood, claiming that in return the cat killed her neighbors' animals and spoiled them. your products. However, with current knowledge, it appears that Agnes was a victim of 16th century interrogation tactics, which involved sleep deprivation and false promises of immunity and pardon. Agnes was hanged in 1566, aged 64.
