A Scottish “witch,” who died before she could be burned to death, has been given new life by forensic scientists. Historian Louise Yeoman of BBC Radio Scotland’s “Time Travels” program and forensic ...

Neighbors accused Lilias Adie of witchcraft; hers is the only witch's grave in Scotland. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. An ...

Scottish officials are searching for the missing bones of a woman who was accused of witchcraft in 18th-century Scotland and buried under a large stone slab, possibly out of fear she would return to ...

Nearly a dozen people are on trial in Scotland for allegedly sexually abusing children and even reportedly involving the kids in "witchcraft." Seven men and four women are facing a combined 32 charges ...

Two Scottish authors and podcasters will be at Citizens Library in Washington on Wednesday, Oct. 22, to talk about 16th century witch trials. Zoe Venditozzi and Clair Mitchell, the hosts of the ...

Officials in Scotland want to locate the remains of a woman accused of witchcraft who died in prison 315 years ago. Lilias Adie, a woman from the village of Torryburn in Eastern Scotland, died in ...

An iron ring set in the stone pillar of a 15th-century chapel in the Scottish city of Aberdeen may not look like much, but historians say it could be a direct link to a dark chapter in the city’s past ...

During the 17th-century Finnmark witch trials, 91 people were executed in Norway's northernmost region, mainly by burning at ...

The fact that witch trials peaked in Scotland during the reign of James VI and I can be at least partly attributed to the king’s fascination with the Malleus Maleficarum, a 15th Century treatise on ...

Accused witches — and their cats — executed during a wave of hysteria and religious ferment hundreds of years ago will be pardoned on Halloween in this Scottish township, a court official said Friday.

The face of an 18th-century Scottish woman accused of being a witch has been reconstructed by experts. Lilias Adie—who lived in the village of Torryburn—was jailed in her sixties after confessing to ...