CONTAGIOUS ENEMIES: THE ABERDEEN WITCH TRIALS (PB)

Traditionally, witches were the midwives, the providers of herbal medicines, the people who understood biology and nature. But when the Scottish Reformation Party pushed through the Witchcraft Act in 1563, the healers became the hunted. The Aberdeen City and Aberdeenshire Archives is a treasure trove of documentation. Amongst its shelves are the original, handwritten court records from the Aberdeen Witch Trials of 1597 - first-hand accounts of the words spoken on those dreadful days. This book brings you these court records, transcribed and translated into modern-day English.