Why would rumors like that be common about Anne Boleyn?
Most people in Tudor times believed in witchcraft, and they certainly believed in the existence of the devil and demons. Anne Boleyn did not fit the standard of beauty at the time — blonde, blue-eyed, plump, buxom and dimpled with a pink and white complexion. Instead, she was dark, rather thin, fairly flat chested and was striking rather than “beautiful”. When Henry became enamoured of her, and remained so for seven years while he put away his very popular wife of twenty-four years as well as his legitimate daughter and heir, changed the laws of church and state and broke with the Roman Catholic Church, which at the time was THE church, with the Pope as the spiritual leader of all Christians, people were astonished. After all, she wasn’t even “beautiful” — so of course she must have “bewitched” him. The sixth finger and third breast (reported to be at the base of her throat, where a demon or familiar could “nurse”) were considered signs of a witch. Sort of the Tudor version of “what
