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

Cathy Maxwell, author of The Scottish Witch, wonders whether the power of our thoughts can affect our everyday lives.

Maryland is the most recent state to introduce legislation to exonerate those convicted of witchcraft centuries ago. But why now?

How to Kill a Scottish Witch Scotland's Witch Trials and the modern-day efforts to recognise these historic injustices Show more ...

The 2025 Genesis Scottish Open gets underway Thursday (late Wednesday for those of you on the West Coast) at The Renaissance ...

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

Decades before the infamous Salem witch trials in Massachusetts, Alse Young was killed at the gallows in Connecticut, becoming the first person on record to be executed in the American colonies ...

Lifestyle New book looks at the terrible history of the brutal Scottish witch trials Could women be tried as witches in modern day Scotland? One book sets to find out.

Witch hunting was nothing if not bureaucratic. Scottish witches were not lynched. The full power and machinery of the law was brought to bear. Testimonies were gathered and interrogations carried out.

Well that is exactly what one new book, How to Kill a Witch: A Guide to Surviving the Patriarchy, sets to find out. Authors Claire Madison and Zoe Venditozzi, known for their podcast The Witches of ...