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The Scottish Witch Trials: Fear, Faith, and the Kirk
We explore the dark chapter of Scotland’s witch hunts, a phenomenon that swept through the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries with terrifying intensity. While previous episodes covered the Enlightenment’s reason and the Jacobite rebellions, this episode delves into the panic that gripped the nation long before. We focus on the North Berwick trials of 1590, where King James VI became personally obsessed with the threat of sorcery, transforming legal procedure into a tool of religious purification. You will hear about Martin Delrio, whose Jesuit writings fueled European hysteria…
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