Dr Marie Cassidy explores Ireland's last witch trial

“While this is interesting it is even more interesting to discover that women were still being burned at the stake in local towns for the crime of murder and coining. Coining was essentially making their own money by clipping bits off real c…”

“Witch hunts in Scotland were part of the Scottish Reformation and the Protestant attempts to have 'the Divine Right of Kings' accepted and to eradicate Catholicism with its superstitious practices.( shrines /praying to statues Transubstanti…”

“i live next door to 'it' (the place), about 4 miles away. there is a cliff here too, by the lighthouse, called 'blackhead' (i live in whitehead) and there, they would march women off the cliff to their death accused of similar without the t…”

“Mary Dunbar the girl accusing people of witchcraft first accused a man called William Dunbar of bewitching her. Mary Dunbar probably had a crush on William Dunbar and accused him of bewitching her, and as an extension of this accused his wi…”