Joseph Noel Paton
Scottish artist, illustrator, antiquary, poet and sculptor.
Illustrator, Male, Painter, Poet, Scottish, Sculptor
Scottish
Orcadian folklorist and antiquarian
Legendary 16th-century Scottish cannibal.
Female, Healer, Scottish, Witch
Alison Pearson, witch
Scottish woman found guilty of sorcery, witchcraft and invoking the spirits of the Devil in 1588, then strangled and burned.
Scottish, Witch trial
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.
Female, Landowner, Scottish
Lady Emily Gordon Cathcart
Heiress known for her stance against Catholicism and her leading role in the Highland Clearances
Female, Mathematician, Paranormal researcher, Scottish
Eleanor Mildred Sidgwick
Physics researcher, activist for the higher education of women, Principal of Newnham College of the University of Cambridge, and a leading figure in the Society for Psychical Research.
Scottish, Song
There’s Nae Luck Aboot The Hoose
Song by Scottish poet Jean Adam (1704–1765), set to the music of “Up an’ Waur Them A’ ”.
Female, Scottish, Witch, Witch finder
Margaret Aitken, the great witch of Balwearie
Pivotal figure in the great Scottish witchcraft panic of 1597.
Male, Scottish, Sorcerer, Witch
Richard Graham
Sorcerer, necromancer and wizard. Executed on the last day of February 1592 as part of the North Berwick witch trials, he was an associate of Francis Stewart, fifth Earl of Bothwell.
