Scotland’s Great Witch Hunt of 1597: The Dark Chapter of Witch Trials
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03/02/22 • 61 min
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Lindsay and Madison discuss the Great Scottish Witch Hunt of 1597, as well as why you should never trust the word of a woman out to save her own skin, that quarrels with neighbors shouldn’t result in someone’s immolation, and how one woman stood up for what was right in the most kickass of ways.
Information pulled from the following sources:
- 2020 Glasgow Evening Times article by Hamish MacPherson
- 2019 BBC Scotland News article by Louise Yeoman
- 2019 Scottish Legal News article by Lauren Brown
- 2019 The Scotsman article by Alison Campsie
- 2017 The Culture Trip article by Alexander Crow
- 2003 Survey of Scottish Witchcraft by Julian Goodare, Lauren Martin, Joyce Miller, and Louise Yeoman
- 2002 The Scottish Historical Review article by Julian Goodare
- Wikipedia (1)
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Lindsay and Madison discuss the Great Scottish Witch Hunt of 1597, as well as why you should never trust the word of a woman out to save her own skin, that quarrels with neighbors shouldn’t result in someone’s immolation, and how one woman stood up for what was right in the most kickass of ways.
Information pulled from the following sources:
- 2020 Glasgow Evening Times article by Hamish MacPherson
- 2019 BBC Scotland News article by Louise Yeoman
- 2019 Scottish Legal News article by Lauren Brown
- 2019 The Scotsman article by Alison Campsie
- 2017 The Culture Trip article by Alexander Crow
- 2003 Survey of Scottish Witchcraft by Julian Goodare, Lauren Martin, Joyce Miller, and Louise Yeoman
- 2002 The Scottish Historical Review article by Julian Goodare
- Wikipedia (1)
Be sure to listen to our friend Syrai at Freaky AF from the Darkcast Network.
Get all the ingredients you need in as fast as 1 hour with Instacart. Plus, free delivery on your first order of $10+.
Become a member on Buy Me A Coffee for as little as $1/month to support the show.
You can write to us at: Ye Olde Crime Podcast, PO Box 341, Wyoming, MN 55092. Join the conversation over at the Cultiv8 Discord and join the Olde Crimers Cubby to chat with us and other listeners of the show.
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