Claire Mitchell and Zoe Venditozzi successfully campaigned for a state pardon for women accused of witchcraft ...

A Scottish medium who had 'power' to summon spirits of the dead. Scores of eyewitnesses. The last British person imprisoned ...

Between 1563 and 1736, thousands of individuals were executed under Scotland’s Witchcraft Act. Designed to enforce godliness in the newly Protestant country, the law condemned anyone who appeared to ...

Modern tartans are registered for organisations, individuals, and commemorative purposes in the official Scottish Register of ...

(Charles Walker Collection/Alamy Stock Photo) There was also a general belief in witches and witchcraft. Witches were believed to be people who could use magic and spells to influence the world ...

A new tartan has been registered memorialising the people in Scotland who were persecuted for witchcraft. The new Witches of ...

The black, red, gray and pink design honors the thousands of individuals—mostly women—who were persecuted under the Scottish Witchcraft Act Sarah Kuta Daily Correspondent Between 1563 and 1736 ...

All of the proceeds generated will be donated to charity in an effort to further the campaign's mission. The Scottish Register of Tartans states: "This design was created to memorialise those who ...