Fearefull Aboundinge
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‘...fearefull abounding at this time in this countrie, of these detestable slaves of the devill, the witches or enchanters.
What can be the cause that there are twentie women given to that craft, where ther is one man? The reason is easie, for as that sexe is frailer then man is, so is it easier to be intrapped in these grosse snares of the Devill, as was over well proved to be true, by the Serpents deceiving of Eva at the beginning, which makes the homelier with that sexe sinsine.’
- King James I, Daemonologie in Forme of a Dialogue, Edinburgh, 1597
Fearefull Aboundinge is a reminder of an atrocity that was perpetrated against women in early modern Scotland, an attempt to create a memory where no living memory exists.
With the highest death toll in Europe, Scotland’s witch trials affected communities from the Lowlands to the Shetlands. 85% of the accused were women, people’s mothers, daughters, wives, sisters and friends. The traces of this dark history can be found all over Scotland, in cities, forests, lochs, villages and towns, locations where the accused were said to meet with the devil, where they were held, tortured and eventually executed, usually in places they called home. The sites in which these crimes were committed are so close as to be inextricable to the world we live in today.