No Grace for Folk Called Witches?

thoughts on the failed pardon...

Screen shot from the Interactive Witches Map, depicting data sets from the Survey of Scottish Witchcraft, representing of accused witches across Scotland.

Sometimes “Scottish Witch” crops up in my Google alerts and my stomach drops. I often delete them without looking, but recently a spate of headlines appeared, crowing about the Scottish National Party* abandoning plans to pardon accused witches. The Spectator opens their article with glee. “Ding, dong the Bill is dead.” A legal rag sums up opposition to the bill by quoting trolls on X: “What about justice for all those turned into newts?” (etc., paraphrasing.)