Between 1563 and 1736, thousands of individuals were executed under Scotland’s Witchcraft Act. Designed to enforce godliness in the newly Protestant country, the law condemned anyone who ...

In his potboiler about the Gallic War, old JC claimed the “extremely superstitious” Gaulish Druids sacrificed folk in “figures of vast size, the limbs of which formed of osiers they fill with living ...

Woodcut showing the Scottish King, James VI overseeing the torturing of witches at the witchcraft trial in Edinburgh. From 1591 edition of 'Newes from Scotland.' King James VI wrote about this in ...

In Scotland until the 1500s, witchcraft was seen as a religious rather than a criminal issue. Anyone accused of witchcraft was usually dealt with in local church courts. In 1563, that changed.

A new tartan has been registered memorialising the people in Scotland who were persecuted for witchcraft. The new Witches of ...