... belief between the two countries. Witches were believed to have signed a pact with the devil and as a result, the Scots, where Puritanism was highly followed, found the need to use torture to construct evidence, which would have been used in witchcraft trials. England, however, believed in Protestantism and used a different approach to witch-hunting and the building up of evidence against a person who had been accused of being a witch. The result was that witches accused in England were less likely to admit to being a witch as a result of a non-violent interrogation procedure. This was far from the case in Scotland. Politics also played a role in witch-hunting and witch prosecutions. For example, the 1563 Witchcraft Act stated that a person found guilty of being a witch and killing someone would receive a death penalty. It also stated that should a person have been wounded ...

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