North Berwick Witch Trials

Lindsay and Madison discuss the North Berwick Witch Trials, as well as how to blame bad weather on witchcraft, that horrific torture isn’t a good flex, and that killing people based on testimony that you got just so the torture would stop makes you a royal a-hole.
Information pulled from the following sources:

2021 Rambling History blog post

2021 Spooky Scotland article

2017 Goblinshead article by Martin Coventry

Anton Praetorius

BBC Bitesize Case Study

Engole article

Historic UK article by Terry Stewart

Luke Mastin’s Witchcraft website

National Library of Scotland


National Museums Scotland (1)


Wikipedia

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