The North Berwick witch trials were the trials in 1590 of a number of people from East Lothian, Scotland, accused of witchcraft in the St Andrew's Auld Kirk in North Berwick on Halloween night. They ran for two years, and implicated over 70 people.

During the reign of King James VI, somewhere between 70 and 200 so-called witches were put on trial, tortured and even executed, from the town of North Berwick and the surrounding area alone. The exact number is not known, and neither is the proportion of …

Between 1590 and 1592 more than 70 people were accused of being witches in East Lothian, with their activities centring on the town of North Berwick. The case became so well known that even King...

2021年2月16日 · Sometimes the mere sight of the dreaded “bootes” which crushed a victim’s feet was enough to extract a confession. By 1592, more than 70 people had been tried as part of the North Berwick witch hunt. The exact number who were …

The North Berwick witch trials ran for two years from 1590 to 1592 and implicated at least seventy people from southern Scotland, including several nobles of the Scottish court. The suspected witches were accused of holding their covens on the Auld Kirk Green in the village of North Berwick, East Lothian (near Edinburgh).

In 1590, David Seton, bailie of Tranent accused his servant Geillis Duncan of witchcraft, starting the North Berwick witch hunt. Under torture, Geillis Duncan named several other people as...

Characterised by their sheer scale, the North Berwick witch trials of 1597 were part of the first major witch trials in Scotland.

2023年11月19日 · The confessions became more and more grandiose until they finally revealed that this supposed coven had conspired to poison and murder the King. This confession, combined with the King’s Denmark disaster, culminated in the …

The North Berwick witch trials were the trials in 1590 of a number of people from East Lothian, Scotland, accused of witchcraft in the St Andrew's Auld Kirk in North Berwick on Halloween night. They ran for two years, and implicated over 70 people.

The North Berwick witch trials took place in the Lothian area of Edinburgh between 1590 and 1593. The first arrests occurred in November and December 1590, but the precise number of those detained is uncertain.