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 ...

You didn’t have to be out casting spells and stirring bubbling cauldrons in the dead of night to be at risk of being labeled ...

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 ...

“It’s important to recognise that Lilias Adie and the thousands of other men and women accused of witchcraft in early modern Scotland were not the evil people history has portrayed them to ...

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 ...

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

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

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 ...