I actually wasn't hung apparently... I just witnessed my associates being hung for witchcraft when they were healers and midwives like myself.

I think my "previous" death occurred normally. By that I mean I died of old age or some health problem... It wasn't inflicted upon me as a sentence for some crime.

But seeing those around me executed for witchcraft forced me and my skills "underground" so to speak.

A lot of it fits though... I was born into this life an Empath and most practicing Empaths are healers - yet I don't practice.

I've an aversion to it - which can likely be connected to the "weirdness" of it (being an Empath is up there with being a psychic - it's weird and people are very unsure about it) - in today's society if I could be executed I still likely would be! So I don't practice my skill. Don't practice because people don't understand - fear of the unknown and all that.