I did a deep dive into the period of Scottish witch hunting that lasted from the Witchcraft Act of 1563 until the (3rd) Witchcraft Act of 1736. Somewhere between four and six thousand people, 85% of whom were women, were accused of and tried for witchcraft in Scotland at that time, with 660 of them accused during the Great Witch Hunt of 1661-62 alone.
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