ANNAPOLIS–Rebecca Fowler was an indentured servant here in the late 1600s, working the land for years until she and her husband were finally lucky enough to own a plot of land.
But her luck ran out after he died and she took full title. She was soon charged with a deadly crime for a woman of the period: witchcraft.
A long trial led to her sad end as the only person executed for witchcraft in Maryland history, but the story didn’t die there. It’s getting told anew on nighttime tours around this historic city…