https://padlet.com/kyra7340/in4c1rhlgyf3 Kyra MacLeod ENG3UV en-us 2018-07-27 23:31:00 UTC 2025-12-08 14:37:52 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/icons/Pumpkin.png kyra7340 https://padlet.com/kyra7340/in4c1rhlgyf3/wish/271312968 Janet Horne was the final witch to be burned in Scotland, this apparently occurred in June of 1727 when "Janet" and her daughter were accused by their neighbours of witchcraft. The daughter managed to escape while her mother was executed via burning to death in the town square.]]> 2018-07-27 23:32:59 UTC https://padlet.com/kyra7340/in4c1rhlgyf3/wish/271312968 kyra7340 https://padlet.com/kyra7340/in4c1rhlgyf3/wish/271313059 An act was passed in 1563 that made it legal to execute women who were suspected of witchcraft, it is a given estimate that up to 5,000 women were burned.]]> 2018-07-27 23:36:35 UTC https://padlet.com/kyra7340/in4c1rhlgyf3/wish/271313059 kyra7340 https://padlet.com/kyra7340/in4c1rhlgyf3/wish/271403940 Scotland had one quarter of the population but somehow three times as many on trial for witchcraft in England]]> 2018-07-30 02:10:10 UTC https://padlet.com/kyra7340/in4c1rhlgyf3/wish/271403940 kyra7340 https://padlet.com/kyra7340/in4c1rhlgyf3/wish/271404104 Scottish witchcraft was known for 'pricking', this was when a person accused would have their skin pricked with a needles, knives etc because it was believed the witches could not feel pain with help from the Devil.]]> 2018-07-30 02:11:21 UTC https://padlet.com/kyra7340/in4c1rhlgyf3/wish/271404104 kyra7340 https://padlet.com/kyra7340/in4c1rhlgyf3/wish/271404433 85% of the accused were women while the remaining 15% were men. Most of the women were elderly while younger women and men were accused of being related to the person accused.]]> 2018-07-30 02:14:17 UTC https://padlet.com/kyra7340/in4c1rhlgyf3/wish/271404433 kyra7340 https://padlet.com/kyra7340/in4c1rhlgyf3/wish/271405285 A wide spread rumour was that you could purchase tricks from folk magicians in succeeding in fishing]]> 2018-07-30 02:19:40 UTC https://padlet.com/kyra7340/in4c1rhlgyf3/wish/271405285 kyra7340 https://padlet.com/kyra7340/in4c1rhlgyf3/wish/271407749 hundreds of trials for witchcraft were held in the 16th, 17th and 18th centuries. Midwives and healers seemed to be the most commonly accused as witches due to their practices.]]> 2018-07-30 02:38:00 UTC https://padlet.com/kyra7340/in4c1rhlgyf3/wish/271407749 kyra7340 https://padlet.com/kyra7340/in4c1rhlgyf3/wish/271408726 King James wrote a book about witches and witchcraft and his experience in the North Berwick witch trials in the 1590's]]> 2018-07-30 02:48:34 UTC https://padlet.com/kyra7340/in4c1rhlgyf3/wish/271408726 kyra7340 https://padlet.com/kyra7340/in4c1rhlgyf3/wish/271458211 The Scottish believed that if you tied a suspects left hand to their right foot and the right hand to the left foot then threw them in water they would float if guilty as a witch or sink if innocent. Clearly this theory was ill created as the human body floats in water due to a lower density]]> 2018-07-30 15:44:06 UTC https://padlet.com/kyra7340/in4c1rhlgyf3/wish/271458211 kyra7340 https://padlet.com/kyra7340/in4c1rhlgyf3/wish/271458395 Sleep deprivation was used as a tactic to retrieve information from suspected witches, after several days with no sleep the person accused would begin to hallucinate and typically confessed to things such as shapeshifting, flying, meetings with the Devil himself etc. ]]> 2018-07-30 15:47:08 UTC https://padlet.com/kyra7340/in4c1rhlgyf3/wish/271458395 kyra7340 https://padlet.com/kyra7340/in4c1rhlgyf3/wish/271460071 The law that made witchcraft illegal in Scotland was revoked in 1736 after the panic and belief of the use of witchcraft died out, due to a wave of panic in just one year 1,500 women were executed out of 3,500 of the accusations of witchcraft]]> 2018-07-30 16:14:11 UTC https://padlet.com/kyra7340/in4c1rhlgyf3/wish/271460071