A historical account of the belief in witchcraft in Scotland

Sharpe, Charles Kirkpatrick, Esq

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In an age of widespread superstition and suspicion hundreds of thousands of women around Europe and the New World were accused by friends, family, and neighbours of being Witches. Thousands of these women endured judicial torture or failed supposed ‘tests’ such as witch pricking and were forced to confess to being in league with the devil and were subsequently executed. Despite Scotland having around a quarter of the population of England it had three times the number of witchcraft prosecutions. The belief in witchcraft infiltrated every social sphere from Royalty to shoeless peasant.Charles Kirkpatrick Sharpe Esq. vividly captures the dark, unsettled atmosphere that infected Scotland for hundreds of years through an examination of documents from actual witch trials, letters, and rare documents. From the celebrated Witch of Iona to the last execution of a Scottish Witch Sharpe explores the real facts behind this persecution and the contexts that triggered it.