The Witches of Fife: Witch-Hunting in a Scottish Shire, 1560-1710

by Stuart Macdonald

Along the coast of Fife, in villages like Culross and Pittenweem, history records that some women were executed as witches. Nevertheless, the reality of what happened the night that Janet Cornfoot was lynched at Pittenweem is hard to grasp as one sits by the harbor watching the fishing boats unload their catch and the pleasure boats rising with the tide. How could people do this to an old woman? Why was no-one ever brought to justice? And why would...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1906566836
• ISBN13: 9781906566838
• Release Date: October 2014
• Publisher: John Donald Publishers
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.