Kate Forsyth
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This was pervasive and universal.
So it wasn't until The Hammer of the Witches that witchcraft began to be called a heresy.
John Knox and the Lords of the Congregation took what The Hammer of Witches
had written about and they turned it for the first time into law and presented it to her as the Witchcraft Act of 1563.
All it said was, any act of witchcraft, necromancy or sorcery shall be punished by death.
It was literally no more than a line or two.
Well, see, one of the problems with the law was witchcraft was not defined.
Necromancy was not defined.
Sorcery was not defined.
Mary Queen of Scots, in her mind, was thinking of maleficent witches.
So witches who were actually working, casting curses, poisoning people, doing the things that, you know, we think of when we think of a wicked old witch.
But John Knox had in his mind people who were saying blessings as they stirred soup.
Anyone could be accused of being a witch.
And how could you prove that you were not a witch when no one knew what a witch was?
Every single judge, every single county had a different idea of what constituted witches.
And people were using this law as a kind of political weapon to get rid of their enemies.
And so you have these witch hunts.
The first one in Scotland happened only a few years later.
Forced, at Dagger Point, to abdicate in favour of her son, who was then 13 months old.
In the end, she pleased to England, seeking asylum from her cousin, Elizabeth I. But, dear cousin Elizabeth I...
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