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2,500 women were murdered as witches in Scotland.
Now, Witches of Scotland is demanding that their crimes are cancelled.
Scotland's 1563 Witchcraft
Act introduced the death penalty for using magic.
Women were often accused of witchcraft if they challenged men.
Witchcraft investigators stopped women from sleeping, searched for 'witch marks' and stuck needles in them.
Women were found guilty, killed and then burned to prevent them returning from the dead.
So, the mosaic denotes the fact that she was burnt as a witch to get rid of her ashes.
There was a belief that if you didn't get rid of every part of a witch, that they might 'revenant', rev, coming from the French 'revenir', to return."
So that's why women tended to get accused, because women were seen as being somebody that the devil could manipulate easily.
Whereas men could withstand, you know, the devil's advances."
Witches of Scotland is demanding that the women are cleared of their crimes and that the state issues a formal apology.
So we don't think that it's an issue that's past.
It's still sadly very, very relevant."
