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\"witchesThe University of Edinburgh\u2019s online Witches map<\/a> is the result of a data and visualization internship project<\/a>\u2014the intern cheekily referred to as the Witchfinder General\u2014to put the data from the Survey of Scottish Witchcraft Database<\/a> on the map. Nearly four thousand people<\/a> were accused of witchcraft in Scotland between 1563 and 1736; nearly 85 percent were women. The mapped data includes where the accused lived, where they were detained, where they were put on trial, and where they died, when that data is available. Story at The Scotsman<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The University of Edinburgh\u2019s online Witches map is the result of a data and visualization internship project\u2014the intern cheekily referred to as the Witchfinder General\u2014to put the data from the Survey of Scottish Witchcraft Database… More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"autoblue_enabled":true,"autoblue_custom_message":"","autoblue_shares":[],"autoblue_post_url":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[37,71,1391],"class_list":["post-1787808","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-history","tag-scotland","tag-uk","tag-witchcraft","post_format-post-format-link"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3146,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2016\/10\/mapping-scottish-andor-nonexistent-islands\/","url_meta":{"origin":1787808,"position":0},"title":"Mapping Scottish and\/or Nonexistent Islands","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"24 October 2016","format":"link","excerpt":"The Scotsman\u2019s review of\u00a0Scotland: Mapping the Islands\u00a0 focuses on the\u00a0Scottish islands that didn't exist, particularly\u00a0in a 1560 map by Italian mapmaker Giorgio Sideri (aka Callapoda). 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