If we exonerate Scotland's witches there should be a memorial to their cats
There are calls to exonerate Scotland's forgotten witches. This could be widened to the whole of Europe but at the moment Claire Mitchell QC is campaigning for the exoneration of Scotland's witches who were so deeply and horrendously abused, often with their domestic cat companions, from the mid-16th and early 18th centuries. If we exonerate Scotland's witches there should be a memorial to their cats. Picture in public domain. ASSOCIATED: Time to pardon witches and their cats . I wrote this 4 years ago! Scotland has the dubious distinction of being the country which carried out five times more executions of witches per capita than the European average according to a Euro News report. So they were particularly fervent about persecuting ordinary and no doubt decent women who were accused of being witches. Back in the day superstition was more prevalent but it still exists today particularly in developing countries such as on the African continent . Over the course of nearly
