A website was recently released tracing the identities and locations of Scottish people named as Witches between 1550 – 1750. It makes interesting reading and you may be relieved to know that nobody in Blantyre was accused of witchcraft officially. https://witches.is.ed.ac.uk despite 2 people in Bothwell and 2 in Hamilton! In those superstitious, early times […]
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Witchcraft and Blantyre 1697
It is with some astonishment that a connection to witchcraft and Blantyre was revealed to me. Co-inciding and on the back of American witch hunts, a culture arose in the post reformation years after 1560’s of tagging some Scottish people as witches. In those days, a person who had done something untoward or something that […]