THE WITCHES OF LLANDDONA
Anglesey, Llanddona, St Dona's Church - August 2008
There is a quaint story that is told of the village of Llanddona, that relates to three witches from Ireland, who had been outcast
in a boat full of holes, yet managed to come ashore at Llanddona, and settled there.
by Ross Davies
(Pentraeth)
(Pentraeth)
Witches were so feared and hated that they were blamed for everything going
wrong in the lives of villagers, from various maladies to the deaths of
valuable farm animals or even human beings.
An ancient law also advocated the death by hanging of any witch found guilty of such deeds.
However, in 1736, this old law was repealed because Parliament became concerned
that too many charges against such women were based on very unsafe
evidence, so from that year on, no woman paid with her life just for
being a so-called witch.
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