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On Hallowe'en, we remember Gwen ferch Ellis, the first woman hanged as a witch in Wales. She was a healer and herbalist like most 'cunning women'. In 1594 she left a charm (like this later one) in the house of a neighbour; she was tried for witchcraft and hanged. https://t.co/vJOPWVm9TA