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Witch Hunt by BBC

Nov 14, 201933:22Society & Culture

The witchcraft trials were one of the biggest injustices in Scotland’s history, a massive miscarriage of justice, but how did people come to believe in such a thing and what did they believe about it? Our panel of Scotti...

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