During the Puritan era in mid-17th Century England, more than five hundred women were found guilty of witchcraft and executed, with many more burnt at the stake by witch-hunters rousing unruly mobs. On 13th March 1643 in a small Sussex village Mary Seer met such a fate. Crudely carved wooden dolls representing Mary were sold to be thrown into the fire as she burnt, a popular tradition of the time. One such effigy apparently survived...