Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The North Berwick Witches meet the Devil in the local kirkyard, from a contemporary pamphlet, Newes from Scotland (Credit: ...

A group called Witches of Scotland, led by Queens Counsel member Claire Mitchell, ran a two-year campaign to bring the bill in front of Scottish parliament. Getty Images Witches have been free from ...

An illustration from Newes From Scotland (1591), a pamphlet that publicized ongoing witch trials in North Berwick, Scotland, across Europe. Groups of accused women are depicted brewing spells to ...

Nearly a dozen people are on trial in Scotland for allegedly sexually abusing children and even reportedly involving the kids in "witchcraft." Seven men and four women are facing a combined 32 charges ...

Scotland is preparing to posthumously pardon thousands of people who were charged and executed for witchcraft between the 16th and 18th centuries. Between the 16th and 18th century 3,873 people were ...

EDINBURGH, Scotland (RNS) — Just off of Royal Mile in Old Town Edinburgh, in a 17th-century stone building on Chalmers Close, is a new museum that, though dedicated to a part of history most Scots ...

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 ...