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 ...

Witches have been free from persecution in Scotland for over 300 years, but several thousand people who died prisoners could get their official pardon.

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 the meantime, Witches of Scotland co-founder Claire Mitchell thought of another way to commemorate the Witchcraft Act’s many victims.

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 … ...

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

Eleven people are on trial in Scotland for forcing children into witchcraft rituals and then sexually abusing them, according to prosecutors.

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.

An iron ring set in the stone pillar of a 15th-century chapel in the Scottish city of Aberdeen may not look like much, but historians say it could be a link to the trial and execution of 24 people ...