Month: November 2022

Update on the Pagan Discrimination Survey

Update on the Pagan Discrimination Survey A sigil on canvas with Theban lettering around it. There is a rainbow handprint over the sigil. The sigil is to protect LGBTQIA+ people.

By Matt Cormack, November 2022 In March 2021 our Presiding Officer, Steffy Von Scott, and Deputy Presiding Officer, Helen Woodsford-Dean, wrote to several Scottish Government Ministers and MSPs regarding the results of the Pagan Discrimination Survey. There was an initial response from the Scottish Government to acknowledge they had received our letters in 2021.   […]

The Memorial Project Commemorating the Victims of the Orkney Witchcraft Trials

The Memorial Project Commemorating the Victims of the Orkney Witchcraft Trials The Orkney Memorial Tablet. There is a compass in the middle with the words "In memory of those accused of witchcraft". Around the sides of the compass are the words "They wur cheust folk".

By Helen Woodsford-Dean, 2022 Between 2013 and 2019, Dr Ragnhild Ljosland and Helen Woodsford-Dean worked with the Orkney Heritage Society to install a small memorial to the victims of Orkney’s witch-trials. The original inspiration for the project came from a lecture given by Professor Liv Helene Willumsen in 2012, invited by the Centre for Nordic […]

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