Activists seek pardons for 2,500 people killed in Scotland for being ‘…

Claire Mitchell and Zoe Venditozzi are fighting for pardons for all those executed for witchcraft in Scotland, the great majority of whom were women, and for a memorial to those forgotten by history.“Between the 16th and 18th century in Scotland, approximately 4,000 people were accused of witchcraft,” explained Mitchell, a lawyer who established the campaign group Witches of Scotland.In total, more than 2,500 people were executed for witchcraft in Scotland, four-fifths of them women. They were…
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