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AMC is conjuring up more of Anne Rice’s Mayfair Witches, renewing the Immortal Universe drama for Season 3, TVLine has ...
The initiative, now under consideration before Parliament, is the result of a two-year long campaign led by a group named Witches of Scotland. Activists Claire Mitchell QC and Zoe Venditozzi ...
Thousands of people were executed under the Witchcraft Act in newly Protestant Scotland between 1563 and 1736. The law ...
The history of Scotland's witches is to be revealed in a new book written by the women who campaigned to get a formal state pardon for women burned at the stake hundreds of years ago. How to Kill ...
Over time, Scottish people became shocked by high profile witch hunts that had led to large numbers of deaths. In particular, the ‘Great Scottish Witch Hunt’ of 1661-2 had seen at least 660 ...
In 16th and 17th century Scotland, roughly 4,000 people were accused of witchcraft. The rate of executions were five times the European average, and of the accused, 85% were women. The BBC's ...
If James I had asked Scottish witch Gilly Duncan where she got her guidance, she’d have given him one sort of answer. If Joan of Arc’s overmatched inquisitors had posed the same question ...
Connecticut followed with its witch exonerations in 2023. Perhaps most notably, Scotland apologized for its witchcraft trials that led to the torture and execution of thousands of women from the ...
The Scottish Register of Tartans has reached a significant milestone as it added the ten thousandth tartan design to its ...
Modern tartans are registered for organisations, individuals, and commemorative purposes in the official Scottish Register of Tartans and the newest entry is special. The new Witches of Scotland ...
Connecticut followed with its own witch exonerations in 2023. Perhaps most notably, Scotland apologized for its witchcraft trials that led to the torture and execution of thousands of women from ...