Aberdeen witch trials of 1596–1597

The persecution of accused witches in Aberdeen began during the Aberdeen witch trials of 1596–1597 when forty-five women and two men were accused of the offence in the city with 22 women and one man executed for having been found guilty of being witches.

For Professor Julian Goodare, "The records of trials for witchcraft in Aberdeenshire in 1597 have long been known as one of the fullest and most important collections of source-material on the subject in Scotland."

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