Two Books Explore the Lives of Witches. ... At least 2,000 took place in Scotland, largely driven by the protestant King James VI and I, ...

The king’s book. Scottish Parliament had criminalized witchcraft in 1563, just before James’s birth. The act made being a witch a capital offense.

A new book How to Kill a Witch brings a dark period of history back to grisly life – and an official tartan is being released to memorialise some of those who were tortured and killed.

Daemonologie – The King James's book about witchcraft. Image source, ALAMY. Image caption, The front cover of King James VI's book about witchcraft, Daemonologie, 1597.

She said that after the king sailed abroad in 1589 to marry Anne of Denmark, the North Berwick witches baptized a cat, bound it with a dead man’s bones, and tossed the animal into the sea ...

The marriage of Princess Anna of Denmark and King James VI of Scotland is disrupted as witchcraft mania sweeps Edinburgh.Evokes the witch trials of 106 February 2025-century Scotland ...

When 18-year-old Henry died of typhoid fever in 1612, the book was passed to James’s second son, who later became King Charles I. 5. After becoming King of England in 1603, James VI and I tried ...