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Isobell Shyrie
Isobell Shyrie (died c. 1662) was a woman accused during the Forfar witch trials of and executed for witchcraft in Forfar Forfar (; , ) is the county town of Angus, Scotland, and the administrative centre for Angus Council, with a new multi-million-pound office complex located on the outskirts of the town. As of 2021, the town had a population of 16,280. The town ..., Scotland. Biography Shyrie was the first of 12 women arrested and imprisoned at the Forfar Tolboth following accusations of witchcraft in 1661. Shyrie's arrest followed an accusation that she had cursed an official, George Wood, which started the event now known as the 'Forfar Witch Trials'. Judicial execution of Shyrie was carried out in December 1662, during the hysteria of the Great Scottish Witch Hunt of 1661–62. The Forfar witch trials ended with the execution of Helen Guthrie, who was the last woman to be executed for witchcraft in the town. Helen Guthrie, in her confession, is said to have descri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Forfar Witch Trials
The Forfar witch trials took place in Forfar in the 16th and 17th century during the Scottish witch-hunt, coming to an end in a final intense witch hunt in 1661/1662. The last person accused of witchcraft to be executed was Helen Guthrie (accused witch), Helen Guthrie, who died in December 1662. Early witch hunts The first which hunts in Forfar by the Witchcraft_Acts#Scottish_Witchcraft_Act_1563, Scottish Witchcraft Act took place under regent Moray, in which thirty-eight people were accused judicially in Forfar in 1568. Between 1649 and 1650, there were 16 people suspected of witchcraft in the county of Forfar. Trials of 1661/1662 The final witch hunt took place between 1661 and 1662, in which at least 53 people were accused of being witches. In the years prior, Scotland had suffered from failed crops, sickness, invasion by the troops of Oliver Cromwell, Cromwell, leading to unrest and an intensified religious atmosphere dominated by the Presbyterianism, Presbyterian Church of Sco ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Forfar
Forfar (; , ) is the county town of Angus, Scotland, and the administrative centre for Angus Council, with a new multi-million-pound office complex located on the outskirts of the town. As of 2021, the town had a population of 16,280. The town lies in Strathmore, Angus and Perth & Kinross, Strathmore and is situated just off the main A90 road between Perth, Scotland, Perth and Aberdeen, with Dundee (the nearest city) being 13 miles (21 km) away. It is approximately 5 miles (8 km) from Glamis Castle, seat of the Bowes-Lyon family and ancestral home of Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother, Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother, and where the late Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon, Princess Margaret, younger sister of Elizabeth II, Queen Elizabeth II, was born in 1930. Forfar dates back to the temporary Scotland during the Roman Empire, Roman occupation of the area, and was subsequently held by the Picts and the Kingdom of Scotland. During the Scottish Wars of Independence, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Great Scottish Witch Hunt Of 1661–62
The Great Scottish Witch Hunt of 1661–62 was a series of nationwide witch trials that took place across the whole of Scotland during a period of sixteen months from April 1661. At least 660 people were tried for witchcraft and various forms of diabolism. The exact number of those executed is unknown, largely because they were tried by different legal courts, but is believed to number in the hundreds. Under no other period in Scottish history, possibly with the exception of The Great Scottish Witch Hunt of 1597, were so many tried for witchcraft as during the 1661–1662 witch hunt. The witch hunt started in Midlothian and East Lothian east of Edinburgh Edinburgh is the capital city of Scotland and one of its 32 Council areas of Scotland, council areas. The city is located in southeast Scotland and is bounded to the north by the Firth of Forth and to the south by the Pentland Hills. Edinburgh ..., where 206 people were accused of sorcery between April and December 1661. Sub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Helen Guthrie (accused Witch)
Helen Guthrie (died c. December 1662) was the last woman suspected of being a witch to be executed during the Forfar witch trials in Forfar, Scotland. Biography In December 1662, Guthrie, along with her thirteen year old daughter Janet and 11 other women Including Isobell Shyrie, were accused of witchcraft and held at the Forfar tolbooth. Guthrie was subsequently strangled and burned with tar before being sentenced and judicially executed at the Playfield Forfar (situated on the site of the present day Victoria Street). Janet was released from custody in 1666 after the hysteria of the Great Scottish Witch Hunt of 1661–62 subsided. Forfar Witches Memorial In 2010, a memorial was placed to commemorate 22 suspected witches who were executed in Forfar, including Guthrie. The memorial which is dedicated to 'Forfar Witches' contains 22 dots, one for each of the women who were executed. A further memorial to all 50 local witches so far identified, is placed in the Town Hall wh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Barry, Angus
Barry (Scottish Gaelic: ''Barraidh'') is a small village in Angus, Scotland, on Barry Burn at the mouth of the River Tay. The recent completion of a bypass for the village on the A930 road from Dundee to Carnoustie is something that was originally planned before the Second World War. There is a water mill (Barry Mill) operated by the National Trust for Scotland. History The Parish of Barry, which was originally known as Fethmoreth, Fethmure, Fettermore or Fethmuref was originally bestowed to the monks of Balmerino Abbey in Fife by Alexander II in 1230. An early record of it can be found in a proverb attributed to Thomas the Rhymer: ::''The braes of Fettermore'' ::''Hae been a gude ship's shore'' The monks originally managed the lands from the Grange of Barry and latterly the land was controlled by the office of the Bailies of Barry, an early holder of this position being Sir Thomas Maule of Panmure in 1511. A number of feus were granted in the Parish around that t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Forfar Witches Memorial
Forfar (; , ) is the county town of Angus, Scotland, and the administrative centre for Angus Council, with a new multi-million-pound office complex located on the outskirts of the town. As of 2021, the town had a population of 16,280. The town lies in Strathmore and is situated just off the main A90 road between Perth and Aberdeen, with Dundee (the nearest city) being 13 miles (21 km) away. It is approximately 5 miles (8 km) from Glamis Castle, seat of the Bowes-Lyon family and ancestral home of Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother, and where the late Princess Margaret, younger sister of Queen Elizabeth II, was born in 1930. Forfar dates back to the temporary Roman occupation of the area, and was subsequently held by the Picts and the Kingdom of Scotland. During the Scottish Wars of Independence, Forfar was occupied by English forces before being recaptured by the Scots and presented to Robert the Bruce. Forfar has been both a traditional market town and a major manufac ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
