Scottish custom was to strangle condemned witches at the stake before burning, although the sources here do not say whether that happened. The 1598 cases came shortly after the national witch panic of 1597 that Julian Goodare has argued for. No details of the charges are given in the summary we found.
Witchcraft
Three Women Burned on the South Inch, 1598
South Inch, Perth
1598
- Evidence
- Contemporary written record
- Access
- Open ground
- Location
- 56.389, -3.433 (Parish-level only, treat as an area)
Sources: Cowan, Perth, the Ancient Capital of Scotland, on Electric Scotland [public-domain]; Hallyburton and Gordon, 'Feart Maidens': the witches of Perthshire, Tayside and Fife Archaeological Journal 27 [other]
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