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Kirkwall Witchy Walk

Kirkwall Witchy Walk

Memorial planned for the historic victims of the Orkney witch-trials

By Liz Williams | September 27, 2018

UNITED KINGDOM — In the islands of Orkney, a memorial is planned for the victims of the witch trials. The site will open in 2019. The inspiration for the project came when Professor Liv Willumsen of the University of Tromsø gave a talk at Orkney College in 2012. Professor Willumsen made a comparison between the witch trials in Scotland and those in Northern Norway, and she also mentioned a memorial to witches in Steilneset in Finnmark, Norway. Over 100 people were tried in that region, an unusually high number for Norway, with 91 people being burned at the stake.

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