Description
From 1563 to 1736 Scotland put thousands of ladies to death for witchcraft. Their supposed crimes have much to let us know about attitudes to ladies previously, and within the present day. This book introduces sixteen ladies who lost their lives or lived within the long shadow of the persecutions.
‘Witches’ who, like MARGARET AITKEN, confessed, implicated others, even aided the hunters before they were burned.
Nonconforming ladies like MARY MACLEOD, who saw their reputations tarnished when they didn’t bend to society’s expectations.
Creatures of the imagination, like Robert Burns’s NANNY, who embody deep-seated associations between womanhood and the occult.
Weaving fiction with the facts where these are known, We Are All Witches invitations the reader to explore the forces at work in one of the crucial darkest episodes of Scotland’s history and believe their echoes within the present day.
