July
The July moon is known as... Hay Moon, Wort Moon, Moon of Claiming, Moon of Blood (mosquitoes), Blessing Moon, Meadmonat (Meadow Month), Hewimanoth (Hay Month), Fallow Moon, Buck Moon, Thunder Moon.
July 3: Trial of Joan Prentice, accused of sending an imp on the form of a ferret to bite children
July 4: Roman 'Day of Pax' (goddess of peace)
July 5: Conviction of witches at the third of four trials at Chelmsford England 1589
July 7-8: Roman 'Norae Caprotinae' Womens' festival dedicated to Juno
July 10: Day of Hel (Anglo Saxon/Norse goddess) and Cerridwen (Celtic goddess)
July 14: Japanese 'O-Bon' (Festival of Lanterns)
July 15: Chinese 'Chung Yuan' (Festival of the Dead)
July 17: Egyptian birthday of Isis
July 18: Egyptian birthday of Nephthys
July 19: Egyptian New Year. 'Opet Festival' (marriage of Isis and Osiris). Roman celebration of Venus and Adonis. Rebecca Nurse hanged in Salem Massachusetts 1692
July 22: Northamptonshire Witches condemned 1612
July 23: Roman 'Neptunalia' in honour of Neptune, god of earthquakes
July 25: Death od Pope Innocent VIII 1492
July 27: Belgian 'Procession of the Witches'. Jennet Preston becomes the first 'Malkin Tower' witch to be hung 1612
July 29: Agnes Waterhouse (one of the Chelmsford Witches) is hanged 1566
July 31: Alleged meeting of British witches to raise cone of power to stop Hitler's invasion of England 1940
