Isobel Gowdie: The Most Extraordinary Witch Confession in Scottish History
In the spring of 1662, in the parish of Auldearn in the Scottish Highlands, a woman walked into a church and began to speak. Nobody had accused her. Nobody had arrested her. Nobody had applied the instruments of persuasion that extracted confessions from so many of her contemporaries. Isobel Gowdie simply began to talk, and…
