The Pittenweem witches were five Scottish women accused of witchcraft in the small fishing village of Pittenweem in Fife on the east coast of Scotland...
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minister. Pittenweem Tolbooth was used as the jail for some of the Pittenweem witches. Five women were severely beaten and one was murdered by a lynch mob...
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Daemonologie (category Witch hunter manuals)
which an estimated 300 witches were tried and executed. In the year of Hopkins' death, 1647, he published The Discovery of Witches which directly cited...
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The Witches' Well is a monument to accused witches burned at the stake in Edinburgh, Scotland, and is the only one of its kind in the city. The memorial...
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Bideford witch trial 1684 Paisley witches 1696 Pittenweem witches 1704 Islandmagee witch trial 1711 Accused witches Lilias Adie Margaret Aitken Allison Balfour...
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eighteenth century many people questioned the reality of witchcraft. "Mary Hicks Witch of Huntingdon". Early Modern Medicine. 11 April 2018. Retrieved 30 October...
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Isobel Gowdie (category Witch trials in Scotland)
of witches". The entry in his diary the following day describes a meeting with Colville when they discussed witches and he mentions "Park's witches". Brodie...
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witches. There was said to be large number of witches of several sorts (social classes) who had dedicated themselves to the devil and had a witches mark...
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June. Fillan of Pittenweem is not to be confused with the later Fillan of Munster, who settled at Strath Fillan. Fillan of Pittenweem worked in Aberdour...
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recognise other witches by looking for a special mark in their eyes. In May 1597, she claimed to know of a convention of 2,300 witches in Atholl. As a...
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The Bute witches were six Scottish women accused of witchcraft and interrogated in the parish of Rothesay on Bute during the Great Scottish Witch Hunt of...
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Pannell Witch. The prequel, Becoming The Pannell Witch, was published in the same year. Johnson, Helen (31 October 2018). "The Yorkshire Witches: Mary Bateman...
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A Guide to Grand-Jury Men (category Witch hunter manuals)
witches How trials of bad witches should be conducted and rules for the persecution, conviction and condemnation of witches in the course of justice....
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History of Orkney, Birlinn, ISBN 978-1-84158-696-0 Willumsen, Liv Helene (2013), Witches of the North: Scotland and Finnmark, BRILL, ISBN 978-90-04-25292-9...
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Kirkjuból witch trial was a witch trial that took place in Kirkjuból in 1656, in what is today Ísafjörður, in Iceland. It is the most famous witch trial in...
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Rebecca Mason "Hubble bubble, toil and trouble: Scotland's dark past as a witch-hunting nation". HeraldScotland. 15 October 2017. Retrieved 8 March 2019...
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Pittenweem Parish Church and Tolbooth Steeple is an ecclesiastical and municipal complex in the High Street, Pittenweem, Fife, Scotland. The structure...
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references to a fairy in statements given to interrogators by alleged witches were routinely changed to read devil or demon. At her trial in Kirkwall...
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councillor ridiculed over witch trial comments says he's 'met modern witches'". Sunday Life. McCollum et al. (2023) p. 114 "The Witches of Islandmagee: A Graphic...
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Blockula (category Witches' Sabbath)
the marvellous history of Major Weir and his sister, the witches of Bargarran, Pittenweem, Calder, &c / By Mr. George Sinclair. pp. 112–124. Glanvill...
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the marvellous history of Major Weir and his sister, the witches of Bargarran, Pittenweem, Calder, &c / By Mr. George Sinclair. p. 123. Fell JW, Boekhout...
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the marvellous history of Major Weir and his sister, the witches of Bargarran, Pittenweem, Calder, &c / By Mr. George Sinclair. p. 135. This article...
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dominant hill in the area, Kellie Law. It is about 4 kilometres north of Pittenweem in the East Neuk of Fife, Scotland. The earliest records of Kellie go...
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Falkland Palace (section The witch-hunt of 1597)
lutenists, and an African drummer known as the "More taubronar". A man from Pittenweem brought a live seal to the castle on 25 September 1502 and James IV gave...
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Scottish Witch Hunt. Over 600 people were tried as witches across Scotland that year. This reflects the superstitious era and increased witch trials that...
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of Bothwell. His mother was Agnes Strang of Balcaskie House, north of Pittenweem in Fife. He graduated at the University of St Andrews M.A. in 1581 and...
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"Aratuste". 23 June-midsummer or Sanjuanada, bonfire and burning of the witch serving ancestral rites prior to Christianity to the sound of the txistu...
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the Povoan witch (bruxa), some were evil, named Bruxas do Diabo (Devil witches) and others were not responsible for their condition. Witches lived among...
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VI of Scotland sent Skene and Colonel William Stewart, Commendator of Pittenweem, with John Geddie as secretary, as ambassadors to Denmark and Germany...
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United Kingdom The ship ran aground at Pittenweem, Fife. She was on a voyage from Granton, Lothian to Pittenweem. Fear Not Germany The barque was driven...
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