Author Mary Craig wrings her hands in distress as she narrates, in first-person, the excruciating experiences a victim of the witch-hunting craze in the 16th century likely endured. This is a presentation that brings a new dimension of realism to her book Borders Witch Hunt: 17th Century Witchcraft Trials in the Scottish Borders. As she talks to the audience while embodying this character, we get an acute sense of the fact these horrors actually did happen – and not in a far-away, detached land of fantasy – but just down the street, where witches were hanged in front of Edinburgh castle.
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