The pop culture idea of witches that make up our Halloween decorations and costumes is pretty benign, but the real historical women who were accused of witchcraft are tragic tales. These were women who stood out in some way, who caused trouble or else were a scapegoat for superstitious fears. They were shunned, tortured, or even executed in gruesome ways.
Even after the era of witch killings, women who didn't fit in or upheld the standards of respectability were labeled as witches, and that reputation can follow one beyond death. The graves of some women have carried their reputations and are considered haunted. Meg Shelton's grave has a huge boulder laid atop, to make sure she never comes back. Susan Gavan’s grave has a small fence around it, but is that to keep people who get too close from being cursed? Bathsheba Sherman was accused of killing her infant, and a movie franchise grew up around her story.
This has even happened to a couple of gravesites in which the deceased had never been considered a witch in life -or may have never existed at all. It's a common story: someone approaches a gravesite, becomes spooked by a sound or a gust of wind, and has to tell someone. Urban legends grow up around these sites, and every encounter gives someone else a story to tell. Read about eight graves allegedly haunted by the witch buried there at Mental Floss. Six of them are in the US, in case you want to plan an autumn road trip.