Case file · Witch trials
Fairfield County witch persecution
In 1792 neighbours in Fairfield County, South Carolina, held a mock trial in a barn, convicted Mary Ingleman and others of witchcraft, flogged them and burned their feet.
1792 CE · 34.45, -81.20 · status: official
The account
An accuser claimed Ingleman had turned him into a horse and ridden him. She sued her attackers and won; the case was reported in the South Carolina Gazette in November 1792.
The sceptical view
Later local legend of a witch hanged at the Winnsboro courthouse is false; the documented event is the mob trial and the lawsuit.