Well that is exactly what one new book, How to Kill a Witch: A Guide to Surviving the Patriarchy, sets to find out. Authors ...

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 ...

The newest entry in the official Tartan Registry isn't for a family or an occasion, though, but a living memorial for those ...

Thousands of people were executed under the Witchcraft Act in newly Protestant Scotland between 1563 and 1736. The law ...

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 ...

His fury was directed at the case of Scottish medium Helen Duncan ... But as four-part BBC programme Paranormal: Britain's Last Witch reveals from tonight, Duncan's case is far from straightforward.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...