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2- Birthday of Alexandro di Cagliostro, magician, 1743
9- Birthday of Grace Cook, medium and founder of the White Eagle Lodge, 1892
10- Hanging of Bridget Bishop; first to die in the Salem Witch trials, 1692
11- James I Witchcraft Statute replaces the 1563 mandate with stricter prenalties, 1604
13- Birthday of William Butler Yeats, poet and member of the Golden Dawn, 1865 - Birthday of Gereld Gardner, founder of the Gardnerian Tradion, 1884
15- Margret Jones becomes the first person executed as a Witch in the Massechusetts Bay Colony, 1648; she was a Boston doctor who was accused of witchcraft after several of her patients died
17- Birthday of Starhawk, Wiccan author
18- Church of All Worlds chartered with the IRS, 1970
19- Birthday of James I of England, famous for his anti-witchcraft laws, 1566
22- Final witchcraft law in England repealed, 1951
24- Birthday of Janet Farrar, Wiccan author - James I Witchcraft Statute of 1604 is replaced in 1753 with a law against pretending to practice divination and witchcraft; law stands until 1951
25- A law is introduced in Germany by Archbishop Siegfried III to encourage conversion rather that burning of heretics, 1233
26- Birthday of Stewart Farrar, Wiccan author - Richard of Gloucester assumes the English throne after accusing the widowed queen of Edward IV of witchcraft, 1483
27- Birthday of Scott Cunningham, Wiccan author, 1956