Scottish witch cult held disturbing rituals, ... "I didn't like it when all the witches pointed their wands at me," one girl said of the rituals, according to the BBC.

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 ...

An 1868 drawing of the former prison for witches, St Mary's Chapel, after it was restored to religious use. An iron ring set in the stone pillar of a 15th-century chapel in the Scottish city of ...

A Scottish “witch,” who died before she could be burned to death, has been given new life by forensic scientists. Historian Louise Yeoman of BBC Radio Scotland’s “Time Travels&#82… ...

Tortured and burned, the innocent victims of Scotland's witch-hunt hysteria: Fingernails ripped out, shins crushed and garrotted on pyres. Thousands were killed in a frenzy sparked by King James.

"It was a powerful and incredibly important first step in righting the historic wrong of 'witchcraft' accusations, arrests and executions. Read more: Alistair Darling claims Nicola Sturgeon does not ...

Scottish officials are searching for the missing bones of a woman who was accused of witchcraft in 18th-century Scotland and buried under a large stone slab, possibly out of fear she would return ...

It is the only known witch's burial site in Scotland, though approximately 3,500 Scottish people — most of them women — were tried and executed as witches during the early years of the 18th ...

The bones of an 18th century ‘witch’ vanished decades ago. Now Scottish officials are hunting for them. ... But not for witches who died before they could repent — as in Adie’s case, ...

Accused witches — and their cats — executed during a wave of hysteria and religious ferment several hundred years ago will be pardoned on Halloween in a small Scottish town.

Cathy Maxwell's second Chattan Curse book is out this week, The Scottish Witch (book one was Lyon's Bride).How appropriate that it came out the week of Halloween! Cathy joins us to wonder whether ...

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 ...