All of Us Witches
All of Us Witches at Stories of Lynn Museum, King's Lynn
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About the show
All of us Witches is the second event held by CULTure Babylon to honour the women who were executed under successive Witchcraft Acts in East Anglia.
King's Lynn played an important role in these trials and at least 60 women were put to death in the region during this time.
This exhibition was inspired by the local legend of the Witch's Heart, which we have adapted as the Wyrdfest Logo.
The exhibition explores the history and cultural background to the witch trials. It contains documents and artefacts from the King's Lynn archives showing how the genuinely-held belief that witches could cause physical harm to livestock, communities and individuals became law - and was prosecuted with deadly effect.
The exhibition shows the names of some of the women who were executed in Lynn's Tuesday Marketplace and asks if any of them actually practised witchcraft?
Finally it looks at the practice of witchcraft as a spiritual path today and includes a reminder that, in some parts of the world, the accusation of being a witch can still be a death sentence.