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.

It is a tale that still echoes through the region, with the parish church being named St Serf’s Kirk in his honour. The ...

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 ...

READ MORE: For over 150-years, in the 1500’s to 1700’s, more than 4000 women were accused of being witches.These women faced terrible fates, with many being hung, pressed and even burned in ...

How to Kill a Scottish Witch. Not Just the Tudors. ... Witch hunts and executions ripped through the country for more than 150 years, with at least 4,000 accused, including men.

A Scottish member of parliament last year called for posthumously pardoning them. ... Connecticut's witch trials were held in the mid-to-late 1600s. In each of the New England colonies, ...

Holly and ivy are for Christmas, juniper for Hogmanay. This ancient Scottish conifer used to grow throughout the country and, like so many other plants, is steeped in myth and magic as well as gin ...

Could women ever be burned at the stake as witches in a modern day Scotland? Well that is exactly what one new book, How to Kill a Witch: A Guide to Surviving the Patriarchy, sets to find out. Authors ...