The town is now best known as a seaside town that's perfect for a family getaway - but this wasn't always the case, and the ...

Other accused witches included Agnes Sampson, a respected elderly woman in North Berwick and Dr John Fian, a local ...

An engraving showing the events that led up to the North Berwick witchcraft trials from the publication 'Newes from Scotland' (1591). King James VI of Scotland, even wrote a book, the Daemonologie ...

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 ...

Mail Michelle Ballantyne was acting as an administrator of an unauthorised Facebook group which contained racist and extreme content.

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 former leader of Reform in Scotland has resigned her membership, accusing the party of a "witch hunt" against her ...

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 ...

Calls for the "witch hunt" of soldiers who served in Northern Ireland to stop is the front page of The Scottish Daily Express. Two former paratrooper who served during the Troubles were acquitted ...