Mackenzie had been involved in many trials during the Great Scottish Witch Hunt of 1661-2. Over a 16 month period during 1661 to 1662, Scotland carried out one of the largest witch hunts ever seen ...

With wide-brimmed hats, black cats, broomsticks and crooked noses, witches in popular culture are instantly recognisable a ...

Located in Leven’s Mitchell Street, the Scottish Witch Trial Museum tells the stories of both the accused and the accusers. Leonard said: “I have over 20 years amassed a curator’s dream of ...

Fife’s local government has launched a campaign to find the remains of a 17th century witch – and it’s all in the name of feminism, believe it or not. In 1704, Lilias Adie, a woman who lived ...

“I published a book called The Lighthouse Witches in 2021,” Cooke explains, “and when I was researching the Scottish witch trials, I came across a story of this trial in Orkney that really ...

A pilot scheme to hold trials for serious sexual offences without a jury is to be scrapped by the Scottish government.The proposal would have seen a single judge decide whether people are guilty of ...

Those executed after the infamous Salem witch trials in the USA were declared innocent under Massachusetts state law in 2001." A spokesman for the Scottish government said it acknowledged that ...

Plans to hold trials for serious sexual offences without a jury in Scottish courts are facing ... Thomas Ross KC has warned of a possible "witch hunt" against judges if they do not convict more ...

James VI and I was the first monarch to rule both Scotland and England. He also spearheaded the Scottish witch trials. The daughter of King James VI and I was Electress Palatine of the Rhine and ...

(Burchard of Worms, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons) One change that led to witch trials across Europe was a change in how the Catholic Church viewed witchcraft. In the 10th century ...

The juryless trial would have taken place in 2028, but it split MSPs in Parliament. The Scottish Solicitors Bar ... said it created the possibility of a "witch hunt" against judges if they did ...