The town is now best known as a seaside town that's perfect for a family getaway - but this wasn't always the case, and the ...

Other accused witches included Agnes Sampson, a respected elderly woman in North Berwick and Dr John Fian, a local ...

Seven ring members received lifelong restriction orders and were sentenced to a total of 93 years in jail as their sickening ...

The two women and five men were all convicted of gang raping a child and abusing other children under the age of 13 at a ...

Over time, Scottish people became shocked by high profile witch hunts that had led to large numbers of deaths. In particular, the ‘Great Scottish Witch Hunt’ of 1661-2 had seen at least 660 ...

On September 1, a parliamentary committee agreed to pass the issue on to the Scottish government. The bill is likely to be passed around June, 2022. Witch-hunts were not unique to Scotland.

In 16th and 17th century Scotland, roughly 4,000 people were accused of witchcraft. The rate of executions were five times the European average, and of the accused, 85% were women. The BBC's ...

Seven people convicted of being part of a Scottish child abuse ring which plunged to “the depths of human depravity” have ...

Dive into the twisted world of Daemonologie in this trailer for the short folk horror story about the Scottish witch trials.

Women were most likely to be accused of witchcraft: eighty percent of cases recorded in Scotland involved women. In Aberdeen and the surrounding areas during 1596 and 1597 two men and 45 women were ...

Calls for the "witch hunt" of soldiers who served in Northern Ireland to stop is the front page of The Scottish Daily Express. Two former paratrooper who served during the Troubles were acquitted ...