Witches of Scotland tartan
David Dalton <[email protected]> Thu, 13 Mar 2025 01:05:35 -0230
| Newsgroups | alt.fan.countries.scotland, uk.rec.psychic, alt.fashion, uk.politics.misc, uk.legal, scot.legal |
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| Organization | Eternal September |
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Last night on The World there was the following radio segment: New tartan design to honor women persecuted by Scotland’s Witchcraft Act "A new Scottish tartan has been designed to honor the thousands of individuals — mostly women — who were executed between 1563 and 1736 under Scotland’s Witchcraft Act. The Witches of Scotland tartan is part of a campaign to recognize what advocates call one of the greatest miscarriages of justice in the nation’s history. Host Marco Werman speaks with Claire Mitchell, a lawyer and co-founder of the Witches of Scotland campaign.” You can listen to it here: https://tinyurl.com/33a42vju Some more detail, including a picture of the tartan, is at https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails?ref=14651 -- David Dalton [email protected] https://www.nfld.com/~dalton (home page) https://www.nfld.com/~dalton/dtales.html Salmon on the Thorns (mystic page) “And the cart is on a wheel; And the wheel is on a hill; And the hill is shifting sand; And inside these laws we stand" (Ferron)