According to the Survey of Scottish Witchcraft, a University of Edinburgh database created by historians and researchers, there were five flashpoints of witch panic in Scotland: 1590-91, 1597 ...

The other Great Scottish Witch Hunts took place in 1590-91, 1628-1631, 1649-59 and 1661-62. Advertisement.

Scotland’s crusade against sorcery officially began with the issuance of the Witchcraft Act in 1563, giving way to almost two centuries during which the public routinely sought to identify and ...

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 ...

RECORDS of Scotland’s witch trials, the majority of which stretched over a period of 200 years during the 16th and 17th centuries, shed light on a dark period in Scottish history, exposing a ...

In Scotland, however, the Witchcraft Act of 1563 remained codified law for nearly 200 years, and helped justify the deaths of thousands of people. Witches of Scotland, ...

Trials in Scotland involving alleged witches go back centuries, with an estimated 3,000 to 4,000 people executed and tortured over witchcraft claims in the late 16th to 17th centuries, according ...

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 … ...

Learn why witch hunts across Scotland and Europe ended in the 18th Century. BBC Bitesize Scotland History article for learners at Third Level Curriculum for Excellence.

In Scotland, witch trials were especially politicized, encouraged by the Protestant clergy and conducted at the local level, where judges had less oversight and could use torture with more laxity ...