The University of Edinburgh has released a serial of interactive maps visualizing the nearly 4,000 women together with men defendant of beingness witches inwards Scotland from the 16th to 18th centuries. The Witchcraft Act was inwards forcefulness inwards Scotland betwixt 1563 together with 1735. Under the Witchcraft Act the practise of witchcraft together with the deed of consulting alongside witches could last punished past times death. It is non known just how many women together with men were executed for beingness witches but the Survey of Scottish Witches estimates that simply about two-thirds were killed. About 84% of those defendant of witchcraft inwards Scotland were women.
The University of Edinburgh's Witches projection includes a position out of dissimilar maps of the Survey of Scottish Witches data. The Residences alongside Timeline map is amid the well-nigh interesting of the maps inwards the project, every bit it allows yous to explore the information using a position out of dissimilar filters. Using these filters yous tin dismiss thought the place of alone females or alone males defendant of witchcraft, yous tin dismiss explore the numbers defendant past times social shape or past times occupation. You tin dismiss too explore the numbers of people defendant of witchcraft during whatsoever selected appointment range.
Obviously an interactive map agency that yous tin dismiss too explore the numbers of people defendant of witchcraft past times location. According to the Survey of Scottish Witches simply about 32% of those defendant were defendant inwards the Lothian portion of Scotland. The Survey of Scottish Witches says that the Scottish population during this menstruation was to a greater extent than evenly distributed than it is today. Therefore the numbers of people living inwards Scotland's primal belt who were defendant of witchcraft is really striking.
