Kate Forsyth
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 12 Jul
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Mary, being Catholic and being also in line to the English throne, could inherit, and that was the cause of the tension between Mary and Elizabeth.
He was whipped, he was beaten, he was taught to call his mother a witch and a whore, he was taught to spit on her portrait, and he was raised surrounded by this kind of existential terror.
His mother, he was taught to fear her and hate her, and linked to that became this fear and hatred of all women.
Many of the ships carrying her dowry were sunk and the princess's ship was blown miles off course.
James himself got on a ship to sail to go and find her and pick her up and he almost died in this terrible storm.
So James believed it was a storm conjured by supernatural means.
He believed that there was a community of maleficent witches that were trying to enact their revenge upon him for the death of Mary, Queen of Scots, and who didn't want him to rule.
Which saw hundreds and hundreds of women arrested, tortured and killed.
who confessed to kissing Satan's arse and other beliefs about demonism and, you know, Satanism.
And under torture, they all named their neighbours and friends and relatives, and it just spread and spread and spread.
And in the end, more than 100 women died.
They were strangled and then burned, most of them.
A few were burned alive.
Two and a half thousand to four thousand people died in the Scottish witch hunts.
They wanted an apology from the government.
They wanted a pardon for everyone accused and everyone executed for witchcraft.
And they wanted proper memorialisation.
Now, they've achieved the apology.
So the First Minister of Scotland issued an apology on Women's International Day a few years ago.
An apology to all witches who were falsely accused and prosecuted.
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