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Aberdeen Women's Alliance: The Cost of Killing "Witches"
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Aberdeen Women's Alliance: The Cost of Killing "Witches"
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This extract from the accounts of the Burgh of Aberdeen 1596/97 was published in the Miscellany of the Spalding Club and details the costs involved in the killing of two women, Janet Wishart and Isobel Cocker, who were accused of being witches.
This extract from the accounts of the Burgh of Aberdeen 1596/97 was published in the Miscellany of the Spalding Club and details the costs involved in the killing of two women, Janet Wishart and Isobel Cocker, who were accused of being witches.
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AWA02_01
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Witches, Crime and Punishment
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Aberdeen Local Studies
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