Old Edinburgh Being An Account of the Ancient Capital of the Kingdom of Scotlan
Old Edinburgh Being An Account of the Ancient Capital of the Kingdom of Scotlan
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Mar was bled to death in his lodgings with- out trial or conviction, and sixteen witches and wizards four men and twelve women were burnt at the stake in Edinburgh. We have already mentioned the cruel fate of the beautiful Janet Douglas, Lady Glammis, who was burnt in chains on Castle Hill in 1537 for an alleged attempt on the King's life by sorcery. She is said to have been a victim of the King's hate for the Douglases, 301 302 Old Edinburgh of which her brother the Earl of Angus was the head....
Trials for sorcery were very numerous during Mary's reign, and James VI. , by his extreme curiosity to investigate these mys- teries, attracted great attention to them. The witches as a rule were poor and insignificant persons, and the methods of judicial proce- dure, together with the nature of admissible evidence, promised little chance of acquittal to the accused.
Tales of witchcraft have a certain monot- ony, but as the witches we speak of were countrywomen of the weird sisters in " Mac- beth, " perhaps some account of their prac- tices may be interesting.
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Mar was bled to death in his lodgings with- out trial or conviction, and sixteen witches and wizards four men and twelve women were burnt at the stake in Edinburgh. We have already mentioned the cruel fate of the beautiful Janet Douglas, Lady Glammis, who was burnt in chains on Castle Hill in 1537 for an alleged attempt on the King's life by sorcery. She is said to have been a victim of the King's hate for the Douglases, 301 302 Old Edinburgh of which her brother the Earl of Angus was the head....
Trials for sorcery were very numerous during Mary's reign, and James VI. , by his extreme curiosity to investigate these mys- teries, attracted great attention to them. The witches as a rule were poor and insignificant persons, and the methods of judicial proce- dure, together with the nature of admissible evidence, promised little chance of acquittal to the accused.
Tales of witchcraft have a certain monot- ony, but as the witches we speak of were countrywomen of the weird sisters in " Mac- beth, " perhaps some account of their prac- tices may be interesting.
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