At Halloween, ‘witches’ make their annual appearance in our streets as door-to-door guisers or as party-goers.  However, to be accused of witchcraft was of course a very serious matter indeed throughout Britain and Europe during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, and Ayrshire has its share of recorded trials and executions. Many tales concerning one particular […]

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