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Scotland to Pardon 3,837 Innocent ‘Witches’ — 300 Years Later
New York Post ^
| December 20, 2021
| Hannah Sparks
Posted on 12/22/2021 2:12:17 PM PST by 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Before the Witchcraft Act was repealed three centuries ago, an estimated 3,873 Scottish people were put on trial for practicing magic, 84% of whom were women, according to the the group.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.
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TOPICS: History; Local News; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: clairemitchell; crime; danigaravelli; nicolasturgeon; satanism; scotland; scotlandyet; unitedkingdom; witchcraft; witches; witchesofscotland
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To: nickcarraway
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posted on
12/22/2021 2:14:42 PM PST
by
cranked
To: nickcarraway
In related news...
Crops suddenly began growing in Scottish farmlands that lay barren for the last 300 years, the Ministry of Agriculture reported...
-PJ
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posted on
12/22/2021 2:16:45 PM PST
by
Political Junkie Too
( * LAAP = Left-wing Activist Agitprop Press (formerly known as the MSM))
To: nickcarraway
How do they know they were innocent?
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posted on
12/22/2021 2:17:11 PM PST
by
BenLurkin
(The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire. Or both.)
To: nickcarraway
Another example of the Devil’s in charge.
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posted on
12/22/2021 2:19:02 PM PST
by
HighSierra5
(The only way you know a commie is lying is when they open their pieholes.p)
To: nickcarraway
That will definitely help them on their job resumes.
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posted on
12/22/2021 2:19:03 PM PST
by
mass55th
("Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway." ~~ John Wayne )
To: nickcarraway
Breaking: Hillary and Pelosi to fly to Scotland.😆😆
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posted on
12/22/2021 2:19:08 PM PST
by
cowboyusa
(America Cowboy up! )
To: nickcarraway
Talk about ‘who cares’ news.
To: BenLurkin
How do they know they were innocent? Must have thrown them in the water to see if they would float.
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posted on
12/22/2021 2:37:32 PM PST
by
seowulf
(Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty, and dies with chaos...Will Durant)
To: nickcarraway
You know what folks didn't like about witches and obscure, pre-Christian, Celtic religious practices?
Human sacrifice and desecration of human remains. Swell bunch.
To: nickcarraway
Were they really innocent?
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posted on
12/22/2021 2:42:52 PM PST
by
Reno89519
(FJB. Respect America, Embrace America, Buy American, Hire American.)
To: cranked
Lord, I hate it when contemporary people make apologies on behalf of a past they were never involved with in any way. It’s more virtue signaling in lieu of any real actions on anything.
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posted on
12/22/2021 2:43:57 PM PST
by
Codeflier
(Please stop calling these violent totalitarian collectivist Democrats, liberals. )
To: nickcarraway
That’s nice. I just hope they don’t pardon the guilty ones.
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posted on
12/22/2021 2:53:05 PM PST
by
Sparticus
(Primary the Tuesday group!)
To: BenLurkin
“How do they know they were innocent?”
LOL
To: cowboyusa
Breaking: Hillary and Pelosi to fly to Scotland.
On the same broom?
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posted on
12/22/2021 3:01:44 PM PST
by
PeteyBoy
(The wall. Build it and they won't come. (Until they tear it down))
To: seowulf; BenLurkin
How do they know they were innocent?They look it.
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posted on
12/22/2021 3:30:30 PM PST
by
DoodleBob
(Gravity's waiting period is about 9.8 m/s^2)
To: seowulf; BenLurkin
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posted on
12/22/2021 3:32:38 PM PST
by
DoodleBob
(Gravity's waiting period is about 9.8 m/s^2)
To: nickcarraway
Witches are real.
To: BenLurkin
One of them turned me into a newt.
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posted on
12/22/2021 3:37:59 PM PST
by
Repeat Offender
(While the wicked stand confounded, call me with Thy saints surrounded.)
To: nickcarraway
They hope to have the Holy magic seals imprisoning their dark magic and damned souls broken, freeing them from their dimensional prison of darkness and evil, so that they can again possess the bodies of innocent virgins.
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