06/01/2026
The global phenomenon of the witch hunts, long overdue for a historiographical overhaul, is finally being revisited via rigorous scholarship as observed during my one-day visit to the University of Edinburgh Library in the summer of 2025. These findings can be better understood here in this current article:
Abstract Most discussions about the Scottish witch trials have been shrouded in a category of superstition, primarily from historians postulating from the era of the Enlightenment one hundred years afterward. Some have distanced themselves from the witch hunts by universalizing the cases within a mo...
