Occult:This month in history/August

Angeline Tubbs

• 1 August - Occultist Edward Kelley is born. (1555)
• 1 August - Witchfinder Margaret Aitken is exposed as a fraud. (1597)
• 4 August - Scottish nobleman William II de Soules is brought before the Black Parliament on charges of treason. (1320)
• 10 August - Astronomer Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel determines Sirius has an unseen companion. (1844)
• 12 August - Witchfinder General Matthew Hopkins dies of tuberculosis. (1647)
• 16 August - Angeline Tubbs, the Witch of Saratoga, dies. (1856)
• 18 August - French priest Urbain Grandier is convicted of "magic, maleficence, and possession." (1634)
• 19 August - Five people are executed in the Salem Witch Trials. (1692)
• 19 August - Occultist and author Damien Echols is freed from prison after making an Alford Plea. (2011)
• 21 August - A Voodoo ceremony turns into a violent rebellion sparking the Haitian Revolution. (1791)
• 25 August - Russian Tsar Ivan the Terrible is born. (1530)
• 25 August - Galileo Galilei demonstrates his telescope to Venetian lawmakers. (1609)
• 25 August - The occult horror film The Ninth Gate premiers in Spain. (1999)
• 29 August - Lilias Adie dies in prison, accused of witchcraft. (1704)
• 29 August - Austrian painter Christoph Haizmann visits a church in Pottenbrunn seeking an exorcism. (1677)
• 31 August - Mary Ann Nicholas is murdered, the first of Jack the Ripper's confirmed victims. (1888)