Great Scottish Witch Hunt of 1597

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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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