THE HEXING OF LONDON – THE CITY’S HISTORY OF WITCHES Oct 2, 2019 By John Rabon Leave a Comment Around Halloween time, it’s likely to see many witches running around the streets of London, usually just in fancy dress. However, this modern-day bit of fun belies the city’s grim history persecuting women for witchcraft and publicly executing them on the flimsiest of evidence. Superstition against witches had long existed in England, but the Church decried such belief as pagan superstition. Though over time, the idea that humans could willingly be in league with the devil and receive supernatural powers as…