More than two dozen people in the town were accused and tortured in the belief that they were doing Satan's bidding.

As interest in the history of Scotland’s witch trials grows, an interactive map is helping to shed light on the past. Based ...

While the women accused in the infamous Salem witch trials in colonial America have long since been pardoned, the convictions ...

NORTH BERWICK, Scotland — The wind blew hard one fall night here in 1589. So much so that King James VI concluded that witches must have gathered in this fishing town to conjure up the storm that ...

There are thousands of officially registered Scottish tartan designs, but only one is dedicated to the “witches” of Scotland. Certified earlier this month, the tricolor pattern is intended as a ...

Superstitions are most powerful when given legal force. So, when James VI of Scotland — later James I of England and Ireland — believed witches had conspired against his Danish bride and worked with ...

In the 16th century, witches and demons weren’t just for Halloween. People were terrified and preoccupied with them – even ...

Scotland was afraid, very afraid as the hunt for ‘witches’ swept the country.

Thousands of accused witches could be posthumously pardoned in Scotland. A parliamentary measure was introduced 300 years after the country’s witchcraft laws were repealed. The measure follows a ...

Thousands of people were convicted of practicing witchcraft in Scotland in a hunt that spanned nearly two centuries — and the majority of those sentenced to death and executed were women. Many were ...

The persecution began in the 1500s and lasted almost two centuries. Nearly 4,000 people were accused of witchcraft, a vast majority of them women. They were arrested, brutally tortured and coerced ...