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The Times/The Sunday Times 25 Jun 2024
In 1591 Euphame MacCalzean was tied to a stake and burnt alive on Castle Hill in Edinburgh during the North Berwick witch trials (1590-91).
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Bachelor of Dark Arts! University charges £1,840 for academic course on witch-hunting in the 16th...

The Daily Mail 28 Oct 2023
... witch trials’ ... The North Berwick witch trials of 1591 saw the execution of 70 people accused of witchcraft in the small town and six years later in 1597 Aberdeen set out on their own witch hunt.
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Witch lit: how modern writers are reinventing the witch

Beijing News 07 Mar 2023
Darkland Tales (2022) revolves, in part, around the story of Geillis Duncan, one of the first women to be accused of witchcraft in the North Berwick witch trials.
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Mummified cats, potion bottles and witch amulets: inside Scotland’s new museum of witchcraft

Metro UK 04 Feb 2023
‘Often it was there magical specialists once known as wise men and women, or “Spae-folks” that would be caught up in the witch trials ... Witch trials, such as those in North Berwick, are a dark stain on Scotland’s past (Picture.
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Witch hunt: a Halloween trail through Scotland’s haunting past

The Observer 31 Oct 2022
He attended the North Berwick witch trials, the first major persecution under the 1563 Witchcraft Act, and subsequently set up royal commissions to hunt down suspects, recommending the use of torture to obtain confessions.
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