NORTH BERWICK, Scotland — The wind blew hard one fall night here in 1589. So much so that King James VI concluded that witches must have gathered in this fishing town to conjure up the storm that ...

Salem, Mass., isn’t the only place where witches were being hunted centuries ago. Three-thousand miles away and 130 years before the hysteria in Salem, Scots were enthusiastically tracking down ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The North Berwick Witches meet the Devil in the local kirkyard, from a contemporary pamphlet, Newes from Scotland (Credit: ...

Thousands of people were executed under the Witchcraft Act in newly Protestant Scotland between 1563 and 1736. The law ...

Two Scottish authors and podcasters will be at Citizens Library in Washington on Wednesday, Oct. 22, to talk about 16th century witch trials. Zoe Venditozzi and Clair Mitchell, the hosts of the ...

Tartan is more than patterned cloth in Scotland. Specific tartans were linked to clans and regions, and the designs carry ...

Good morning. I'm Scott Detrow. In Scotland, more than 3,800 people convicted of being witches many centuries ago are said to be exonerated and given apologies. Many of these soon-to-be certified ...

Many of the 3,800 people were burned at the stake centuries ago. The effort is led by a group called The Witches of Scotland — dedicated to... Thousands of people in Scotland, convicted of being ...