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I was browsing Wikipedia and decided to compile the most unusual names of people executed or accused of witchcraft/sorcery/necromancy. As you can imagine there are vastly more female names, but there are a couple cool male names.

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Most of the names date from the 16th-17th centuries when witch hysteria was sweeping Europe, but a couple are older or more modern. No names are from beyond the 19th century.

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Female:

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Polissena
Marketta
Wilmot
Gyde
Marigje
Merga
Sidonia, or Sidonie
Michée
Gillis
Nyzette
Metteuccia
Peronne
Alizon
Jennet
Mercy (a child vampire)
Christenze
Alce (maybe a shortening of Alice?)
Temperance
Afra
Gobel
Lussi
Dorthe
Sigri
Solve or Solvi
Malene
Mette
Zinevra
Gye
Plonia
Aquilina
Beltrana
Kael
Lizl
Ummel
Itgen
Bastin
Entjen
Gielette
Maroie
Mathy
Bertelme
Senton
Beinta
Krystyna
Isambour (Queen Ingeborg's French name)
Geske
Ask-Elin
Mécia
Inesa
Sigbrit
Sally Rainbow

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Male:

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Urbain
Mathurin
Egil
Erlendur
Felder Bettlerbub Dionysus
Heliodorus
Henricus