Six Scottish women accused of witchcraft on Bute during the Great Scottish Witch Hunt of 1661–1662.
Essex witches
Collective name given to the 31 people accused of witchcraft in the English county of Essex between 1566 and 1589.
North Berwick witch trials
Series of Scottish witch trials held between 1590 and 1593
Paisley witches
Also known as the Bargarran witches or the Renfrewshire witches, were tried in Paisley, Renfrewshire, central Scotland, in 1697.
Pendle witches
Trials of the Pendle witches in 1612 are among the most famous witch trials in English history, and some of the best recorded of the 17th century.
Pittenweem witches
Five Scottish women accused of witchcraft in the small fishing village of Pittenweem in Fife on the east coast of Scotland in 1704.
Samlesbury witches
Three women from the Lancashire village of Samlesbury – Jane Southworth, Jennet Bierley, and Ellen Bierley – accused by a 14-year-old girl, Grace Sowerbutts, of practising witchcraft. Their trial at Lancaster Assizes in England on 19 August 1612 was one in a series of witch trials held there over two days. All three women were acquitted.
Witch trials in early modern Scotland
Judicial proceedings in Scotland between the early 16th century and the mid-18th century concerned with crimes of witchcraft, part of a series of witch trials in Early Modern Europe.
Witches of Belvoir
Mother and her two daughters accused of causing the deaths by witchcraft of two young nobles, Henry and Francis Manners.