Emma Watson really need not have gone through the magic of Hogwarts classes, was enough to have ventured into the past of his family to learn about witchcraft. Harry Potter actress has just learned that his ancestor, a premium fourteen generations ago, was convicted of witchcraft in the sixteenth century .
Joan Playle, one of the 270 women convicted of practicing witchcraft during the reign of Elizabeth I, was excommunicated by the Church of England in 1592, according to data from a parish of Great Waltham in Essex County . No evidence that would have been burned at the stake or otherwise put to death.
Watson, who in the series created by author JK Rowling plays Hermione, prefers to think that sentencing Playle, I was single, was unfounded grounds. At that time it was not uncommon for older women impoverished, unprotected by being widowed or single, were accused of bizarre practices.
The figure has come to light when studying the family tree the young actress, 19. On the side of his father, fourteen generations ago a grandmother named Frances appears Playle, who had a sister with the name of Joan.
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