Witchcraft in Orkney

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Witchcraft trial
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evidence of witchcraft. Practicing evil spells or incantations was proscribed and punishable in early human civilizations in the Middle East. In medieval...

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Great Scottish Witch Hunt of 1597 (category Witch trials in Scotland)

trials that took place in the whole of Scotland from March to October 1597. At least 400 people were put on trial for witchcraft and various forms of diabolism...

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Kirkjuból witch trial (category 17th century in Iceland)

"Iceland: Sorcerers and Paganism". In Bengt Ankarloo, Gustav Henningsen (ed.). Early Modern European Witchcraft. Oxford: Clarendon Press. pp. 393–401...

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Sanday, Orkney

islands of Orkney that lies off the north coast of mainland Scotland. With an area of 50.43 km2 (19.5 sq mi), it is the third largest of the Orkney Islands...

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Elspeth Reoch (category People from Orkney)

academics considered had a significant impact on witchcraft trials in Orkney. Any references to a fairy in statements given to interrogators by alleged witches...

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Letters on Demonology and Witchcraft

Letters on Demonology and Witchcraft Addressed to J. G. Lockhart, Esq. (1830) was a study of witchcraft and the supernatural by Sir Walter Scott. A lifelong...

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A Guide to Grand-Jury Men (category Witchcraft in England)

Billa vera in cases of Witchcraft, with a Christian Direction to such as are too much given upon every cross to think themselves bewitched. In the Second...

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Selkie (category Witchcraft in folklore and mythology)

on selkie folk have been collected from the Northern Isles (Orkney and Shetland). In Orkney lore, selkie is said to denote various seals of greater size...

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Isobel Gowdie (category People convicted of witchcraft)

to witchcraft at Auldearn near Nairn during 1662. Scant information is available about her age or life and, although she was probably executed in line...

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Bute witches (category Scottish people executed for witchcraft)

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...

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Pittenweem witches (category Witchcraft in Scotland)

five Scottish women accused of witchcraft in the small fishing village of Pittenweem in Fife on the east coast of Scotland in 1704. Another two women and...

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List of Latin phrases (full)

translations of Greek phrases. Assertions, such as those by Bryan A. Garner in Garner's Modern English Usage, that "eg" and "ie" style versus "e.g." and...

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The wisest fool in Christendom

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Stirling, by Adam Bothwell, Bishop of Orkney, on 29 July 1567. The sermon at the coronation was preached by John Knox. In accordance with the religious beliefs...

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1660s in Scotland

giving the King power to raise 20,000 men in Scotland. Act against conventicles. Act for annexation of Orkney and Shetland to the Crown. 1661: 6 October...

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Francis Stewart, 5th Earl of Bothwell (category Witchcraft in Scotland)

Hepburn, 1st Duke of Orkney and 4th Earl of Bothwell. Francis is said to have been born in his mother's tower house at Morham. In 1565, Mary, Queen of...

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