Janet Boyman

Executed for witchcraft, Scotland, 29 December 1572

Janet was alleged to have predicted the death of Regent Moray who was assassinated in January 1570, and her accusation was the first to be made in connection with a political conspiracy

She told her interrogators that she made contact with the supernatural world at a well on the south side of Arthur's Seat, a hill in Edinburgh

There she conjured spirits who would help her heal others. Sometimes she worked cures by washing the patient's shirt at the well at St Leonards

She was condemned as:

"ane wyss woman that culd mend diverss seikness and bairnis that are tane away with fairyie men and wemen" (a wise woman that could heal diverse illnesses and children taken away by fairy men and women)

One of a series working with AI to give face to women executed as witches; these form part of a broader collection of Horror Portraits at www.horrorportraits.xyz

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