Witchcraft
Ann Tennant and the witches of Long Compton
She was called a witch for being old.
Stand where it happened
- What's there
- Thatched village street of Cotswold stone
- Legend from
- Real 1875 case
- Tone
- Dark
Enough witches to pull a hay cart up the hill.
Long Compton had a name for witches: a local saying claims there were enough to drag a load of hay up Long Compton Hill. On 15 September 1875 farm labourer James Hayward, who believed local witches were spoiling his work, attacked old Ann Tennant with a pitchfork in the village, and she died. CONFLICT: the parish council gives her age as 79 and the name as Hayward; Our Warwickshire gives 80 and Haywood (its Part Two uses Hayward).