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After the revolution of 1689 Scotland felt in no need to kill witch's due to no more accusations. In 1736 The Witchcraft Act was put to a stop by the British government and replace with any witchcraft usagea maximum 1 year sentence to imprisonment.

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When you think of a witch you might think of an older women flying on a broomstick. However there were never any reports of seeing a witch flying on a broomstick in Scotland.

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In the 16th and 17th centuries of Scotland there was fear and panic over witches and witchcraft. People started testing and torturing people who were accused of being a witch and later killing them after confession.

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Most of the named and accused witches came from Lothians. Strathclyde and more west of Scotland had the second most witches. The rest came from smaller areas all over and when there was one witch there were more.

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The witchcraft act was put into place from 1563-1736 and allowed torture and killing of all witches. They were five main times when executions were high (1590-1591/1597/1628-1630/1649/1661-1662).

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The swimming test was a test to see if the person was a witch or not by putting the person in water. If the the person floated they were a witch but if they sank they were normal. This was only used a handful of times in the early 1600's before moving on to other testing ways.

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Witches blended in with people in the community and looked the exact same as everyone else. Accusations of being a witch were often from neighbours and small town gossip.

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When the witches were sentenced to execution they were usually strangled then burned. To our knowledge this type of execution was used 120 times.

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Torture was used a lot so witches would confess. One of the most used torture methods was sleep deprivation because it causes hallucination.

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There were an estimated of 3,837 people accused with witchcraft while most had a name a portion of these people were unnamed