Scottish witches who had been burned alive under the charge of having had sex with the devil are expected to be forgiven after 300 years

All this comes after a petition, that those who were accused of being witches with the Witch Hunt Act between 1563 and 1736 were cleared of charges.

It is estimated that some 40,000 people have been charged, and more than half have been executed, more than 85% of the convicts were women or girls, writes the Daily Mail, followed Periscope.

The bill sent to the Scottish parliament has received support from Nicolaa Storm's administration after two years of campaigning.

The fear of religion centuries ago. The Catholic Church had declared that heretics and stretchings should be punished by burning.

Witch laws were passed by James of the Fourth [Jemes IV] of Scotland, and he had led to the search of witches throughout the country in what came to be known as the Great Hunt of the Scocze Witches in 1597.

This event was indeed the second of the persecutions of witches in the history of Scotland.

Especially well - known was the case of Lilias Addie.

After confessing, under torture, that she committed the crime of black magic and that she had sex with the Devil, Mrs. Addie had died in 1704.

She was subjected to burns but she died in prison, probably by suicide.

In memory, the villagers of that village were gathered at her grave on September 1, 2019, and had laid flower wreaths. /Periscope