Scotland may pardon women executed as witches 400 years ago: it's too late

Scotland is considering pardoning people who were executed as witches 400 years ago. That's too late--if the Scots had only left them alone, they'd still be alive today.

The Daily Wire reported the story explaining that the witch trials in Scotland was based on a power struggle between the Roman Catholic Church and the aristocracy.

According to The Wall Street Journal:

In all, until the Witchcraft Act was repealed in 1735, some 3,837 people were accused of the crime — the overwhelming majority of them women — with some two-thirds executed, more per head of population than anywhere else in Europe…

In some instances, people accused their neighbors of the crime to settle scores. Much of the Scottish aristocracy threw their weight behind the purges, hoping they would speed the decline of the Catholic Church and allow them to pick from its landholdings, say academics who studied the phenomenon.

Others, including King James, believed in witches and developed what they thought were scientific methods to detect them, such as pricking them with long needles to see how much they bled. If there wasn’t enough blood, it was held as a sure sign that the accused was a witch.

The way accusations were used back in Scotland seems similar to the way that claims of blasphemy is still used today in Islamic countries in order to get rid of people who people want to be rid of. 

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And let's not forget how self-described witches in the United States repeatedly went against President Trump during the Mueller investigation in 2018.

Today, the New York Attorney General Letitia James (D) is trying to find criminality in Trump's business dealings. She has a person and is looking for a crime--that's a witch hunt.

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