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Back on the witch hunt

I am on a witch-hunt that has nothing to do with the expenses scandal at Westminster or Michael Jackson’s pharmacist.

It concerns an actual, convicted witch. Her name is Janet Horne, a former resident of the Highland town of Dornoch. Horne was the last woman to be executed in Scotland for the crime of witchcraft.