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The St. Osyth Witch Trials Part 5
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The sad story of the women accused of witchcraft did not stay buried. 339 years later, in 1921, men were digging in the sandy soil behind a cottage on Mill Street when their spade hit something hard and two human skeletons were unearthed. The owner of the cottage, Charles Brooker swiftly declared them to be the bones of Ursula Kemp and Elizabeth Bennett, the two women hung for witchcraft.