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Joan Wytte, the Fighting Fairy Woman

Bodmin, Cornwall

A healer who died in jail and was finally buried 185 years later.

Joan Wytte was known as a healer and clairvoyant, the 'Fighting Fairy Woman' of Bodmin. After violent outbursts, perhaps caused by an abscess in her teeth, she was jailed in Bodmin, where she died in 1813.

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When
Died 1813
Where
50.4700, -4.7200
Group
Witches & witch trials

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