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 ...

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 ...

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: ...

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 ...

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 ...

In the early 1700s, a Scottish woman named Lilias Adie was accused of witchcraft and sentenced to burn at the stake. But before the brutal execution could be carried out, she died in prison, possibly ...

Salem, Mass., isn’t the only place where witches were being hunted centuries ago. Three-thousand miles away and 130 years before the hysteria in Salem, Scots were enthusiastically tracking down ...

Accused witches — and their cats — executed during a wave of hysteria and religious ferment hundreds of years ago will be pardoned on Halloween in this Scottish township, a court official said Friday.

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 ...