Scotland to Pardon 3,837 Innocent ‘Witches’ — 300 Years Later

New York Post ^ | December 20, 2021 | Hannah Sparks

[nickcarraway]

Witches have been free from persecution in Scotland for more than 300 years, but several thousand people who died prisoners could get their official pardon.

Advocate group Witches of Scotland ran a two-year campaign aiming for posthumous pardons and could finally see their bill come to pass in the Scottish parliament, the Sunday Times reported.

Before the Witchcraft Act was repealed three centuries ago, an estimated 3,873 Scottish people were put on trial for practicing magic, 84% of whom were women, according to the the group. Two-thirds of them, 2,148 women and 410 men, would be found guilty of supernatural crimes and executed.

[vikingd00d]

>>finally see their bill come to pass in the Scottish parliament

Glad to see Scotland’s already fixed the poverty problem, the immigration problems, the failing healthcare problem, the economy, COVID, ...

Gotta have priorities.

[Terry L Smith]

no time like the present!