https://padlet.com/phuo3140/q442zvqsis3a By: Patricia en-us 2017-07-31 12:22:57 UTC 2017-08-02 13:47:47 UTC hello@padlet.com phuo3140 https://padlet.com/phuo3140/q442zvqsis3a/wish/179764614 A person who practice magic, especially black magic, and use spell to harm people. ]]> 2017-07-31 12:23:23 UTC https://padlet.com/phuo3140/q442zvqsis3a/wish/179764614 phuo3140 https://padlet.com/phuo3140/q442zvqsis3a/wish/179765032 Witch trials was well known as the judicial proceedings in Scotland between the early sixteenth century and the mid-eighteenth century concerned with crimes of witchcraft.]]> 2017-07-31 12:33:33 UTC https://padlet.com/phuo3140/q442zvqsis3a/wish/179765032 phuo3140 https://padlet.com/phuo3140/q442zvqsis3a/wish/179765307 The first major series of witchcraft was North Berwick where King James VI is a victim and an investigator.]]> 2017-07-31 12:38:23 UTC https://padlet.com/phuo3140/q442zvqsis3a/wish/179765307 phuo3140 https://padlet.com/phuo3140/q442zvqsis3a/wish/179765905 Since interested in witchcraft, James VI then defence witch- hunting which limit the prosecutions. ]]> 2017-07-31 12:50:30 UTC https://padlet.com/phuo3140/q442zvqsis3a/wish/179765905 phuo3140 https://padlet.com/phuo3140/q442zvqsis3a/wish/179766026 An estimate of 4,000 to 6,000 people tried for the witchcraft mostly from Scottish Lowlands.]]> 2017-07-31 12:53:37 UTC https://padlet.com/phuo3140/q442zvqsis3a/wish/179766026 phuo3140 https://padlet.com/phuo3140/q442zvqsis3a/wish/179766288 75% of the accused were women]]> 2017-07-31 12:58:46 UTC https://padlet.com/phuo3140/q442zvqsis3a/wish/179766288 phuo3140 https://padlet.com/phuo3140/q442zvqsis3a/wish/179775897 Many causes have been suggested for the hunts, including economic distress, changing attitudes to women, the rise of a "godly state", the inquisitorial Scottish judicial system, the widespread use of judicial torture, the role of the local kirk, decentralised justice and the prevalence of the idea of the diabolic pact.]]> 2017-07-31 15:22:20 UTC https://padlet.com/phuo3140/q442zvqsis3a/wish/179775897 phuo3140 https://padlet.com/phuo3140/q442zvqsis3a/wish/179775902  More than 1,500 persons were executed; most were strangled and then burned]]> 2017-07-31 15:22:23 UTC https://padlet.com/phuo3140/q442zvqsis3a/wish/179775902 phuo3140 https://padlet.com/phuo3140/q442zvqsis3a/wish/179776346 Only 4% of the accused witches were believe that they can cure which indicate that the rest are mostly evil.]]> 2017-07-31 15:28:18 UTC https://padlet.com/phuo3140/q442zvqsis3a/wish/179776346 phuo3140 https://padlet.com/phuo3140/q442zvqsis3a/wish/179776357 The last trial was held in the court of a sheriff-depute at Dornoch in 1727]]> 2017-07-31 15:28:21 UTC https://padlet.com/phuo3140/q442zvqsis3a/wish/179776357 phuo3140 https://padlet.com/phuo3140/q442zvqsis3a/wish/179777698 James VI wrote the Daemonologie, a tract that opposed the practice of witchcraft and which provided background material for Shakespeare's Tragedy of Macbeth, which contains probably the most famous literary depiction of Scottish witches]]> 2017-07-31 15:42:28 UTC https://padlet.com/phuo3140/q442zvqsis3a/wish/179777698 phuo3140 https://padlet.com/phuo3140/q442zvqsis3a/wish/179948942 The last recorded executions were in 1706.]]> 2017-08-02 13:42:59 UTC https://padlet.com/phuo3140/q442zvqsis3a/wish/179948942