Casting a spell

Columnist Lesley Riddoch says the #Metoo movement should embrace the cause of the thousands of so-called witches burned at the stake in Scotland.

Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live; Exodus 22.18. And there we have it. Another example of how this received wisdom has worked for the benefit of mankind.

Ian Craig

Imagine if you just said “I think it’s going to rain tomorrow” and someone said “How do you know that” and you replied “I feel it in my bones” and you ended up on a stake for that reply.

Fiona Forbes

Much of it was down to James VI who apparently believed in witches and appointed a Witchfinder General – who of course found witches.

Les Cullen Yet another attempt to rewrite history. What’s the point, apart from claiming our moral superiority to our ancestors?

Alasdair Gordon

Empathy and sorrow?

Lyn Mclean

Awful what those men and women went through,

Nat Theresa

Whilst Scotland may have been the worst, every other country had a problem with justice for people accused of witchcraft. Johannes Kepler successfully defended his mother from a charge of witchcraft in what is now Germany.

Roastin They forgot about the ones in my work.

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