The black, red, gray and pink design honors the thousands of individuals—mostly women—who were persecuted under the Scottish ...
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A Tartan Has Been Designed In Honor Of The Witches Who Were Persecuted In ScotlandThey founded the Witches of Scotland campaign in 2020 ... per the University of Edinburgh's Survey of Scottish Witchcraft.
It started as an attempt to root out suspected witches in the small towns and villages to the east of Edinburgh. It then spread to become a nationwide hunt to rid the country of witchcraft and ...
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 ...
The new Witches of Scotland tartan is a memorial for the people - primarily women - falsely persecuted under Scotland's Witchcraft Act which was in place between 1563 and 1736. The decree ...
Four hundred years ago, thousands of ordinary people, the vast majority of them women, were hunted down, tortured and killed in witch hunts across Scotland and England. Lucy Worsley investigates what ...
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