based Geillis Duncan on a real-life maidservant from 16th century North Berwick, Scotland. As per the Brooklyn Museum, the ...

Both women were falsely accused of witchcraft by Laoghaire MacKenzie ... Diana Gabaldon, the author of the Outlander series, based Geillis Duncan on a real-life maidservant who lived in North ...

A year early, in Tranent, near North Berwick, a teenage maidservant Geillis Duncan, had been accused of witchcraft, raising suspicion by her habit of sneaking out into the middle of the night to ...

Geillis Duncan is making a surprising comeback in ... her fascination with darker practices like witchcraft set her apart. Geillis was a mysterious figure who often blurred the lines between ...

It seems incredible now that women were executed for witchcraft but, as new podcast series Witch Trials reveals, the moral panic whipped up by James VI of Scotland in the late 1500s shares ...