Noone o' Thaim Witches

When two storms affect the return of King James I and his new bride to Scotland in 1589, paranoid rumours begin to speculate of a plot to kill the king…through a pact with the devil.

Paranoia, fear and revenge seals the fate of three innocent women in one of Scotland’s own witch trials. Scotland’s witchcraft panic began in 1563, with the creation of the Witchcraft Act, and lasted until 1736 when the act was repealed. Between then Scotland participated in five “great Scottish witch-hunts” and a series of nationwide trials. More than 1,500 innocent victims lost their lives to this miscarrige of justice.

“Noone o’ thaim witches” summarises the rise of witch hunts across Scotland from it’s beginning in North Berwick and the main women accused to visually show a part of our history that should be acknowledged.

Inspired by the online campaign for a legal pardon for the women accused by “Witches of Scotland”