Borders Witch Trial: Elizabeth Bathgate

Stories of Scotland

Annie and Jenny

History, Places & Travel, Society & Culture

4.8 • 728 Ratings

🗓️ 28 October 2021

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Join Annie and Jenny as they go back to the witch panics of Early Modern Scotland. We examine the witch trial of Elizabeth Bathgate from Eyemouth, and look at what witchcraft trials reveal about superstitions and paranoia of times past. This episode is sponsored by Scotland Shop. If you are tempted to check out some of Scotland Shop’s beautiful tartan garments and fabrics, please follow this link to Scotland Shop. https://hubs.ly/H0-0fjl0References:James Maidment, The Spottiswoode Miscellany: A Collection of Original Papers and Tracts, Illustrative Chiefly of the Civil and Ecclesiastical History of Scotland, Vol. 2, 1845.John Graham Dalyell, The Darker Superstitions of Scotland illustrated from history and practice, 1834.Julian Goodare, Women and the witch-hunt in Scotland, Social History, Vol 23, 1998.Lauren Martin, Witchcraft and Family: What can Witchcraft Documents Tell us About Early Modern Scottish Family Life?, Scottish Tradition, Vol. 27, 2002. Lizanne Henderson, Witch Belief in Scottish Coastal Communities, Chapter in The New Coastal History, 2017.Survey of Scottish Witchcraft Database by Julian Goodare, Lauren Martin, Joyce Miller and Louise Yeoman, The University of Edinburgh, http://www.shca.ed.ac.uk/Zoey Lorne, The Construction and Regulation of Gendered Crime in Scottish Witchcraft Cases, 1560-1661, PhD Thesis from the University of Lethbridge, 2017. Get bonus content on Patreon

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0:00.0	Picture this. Static cars, idling engines, angry horns.
0:08.6	Now, picture you, zooming past it all.
0:13.8	Light and breezy.
0:16.2	Ah, the sweet feeling of whizzing past traffic.
0:20.8	Book your train journey via avantiwestcoastcoast.coast.com.
0:25.1	Avante West Coast.
0:27.1	Feel good travel.
0:48.3	Hello. Hello and welcome to Stories of Scotland, the tatties and butter of the Scottish History podcast world. I'm Annie.
0:49.3	And I'm Jenny, and I'd say we were more exciting than tatties and butter, Annie.
0:54.6	We're like the black pudding and herring of the Scottish history podcasting world.
1:00.6	That sounds delicious, Jenny.
1:03.2	The real question is, who's the black pudding and who's the herring?
1:06.6	I think we'll let the listeners decide that one, Jenny.
1:11.5	But today, we are heading south to the borders
1:15.0	in our new series exploring the wonderful south of Scotland.
1:19.6	It's brilliant because we're moving from the highlands
1:22.8	where we have the stereotypes of lawless Scots wildly living to their own rules, down to the borders, where we have the stereotypes of lawless Scots wildly living to their own rules, down to the
1:29.5	borders, where we have the stereotypes of lawless Scots wildly living to their own rules.
1:36.2	But this series is going to be fantastic, Jenny.
1:39.9	We have planned some amazing episodes.
1:43.1	We have the histories of witches, the lore of ghosts,
1:47.1	some gorgeous natural environment episodes all about the beautiful borders,
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