{"id":4843,"date":"2016-06-22T11:00:32","date_gmt":"2016-06-22T08:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tourism.plus4d.com\/2016\/06\/22\/aberdeen-s-gruesome-witchcraft-history-unveiled-in-900-year-old-church\/"},"modified":"2016-06-22T11:00:32","modified_gmt":"2016-06-22T08:00:32","slug":"aberdeen-s-gruesome-witchcraft-history-unveiled-in-900-year-old-church","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tourismworld-seyaha.com\/?p=4843","title":{"rendered":"Aberdeen&#8217;s gruesome witchcraft history unveiled in 900-year-old church"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"border: 0px; color: #404040; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: 1rem; font-weight: inherit; letter-spacing: inherit; line-height: 1.375; margin: 18px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\">New light has been shed on the persecution of &#8216;witches&#8217; during the transformation of a 900-year-old church.<\/p>\n<div class=\"hide-wrapper extra-content\" style=\"border: 0px; color: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14px; font-weight: inherit; letter-spacing: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\">\n<p style=\"border: 0px; color: #404040; font-family: Helmet, Freesans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1rem; line-height: 1.375; margin: 18px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\">The &#8220;Mither Kirk&#8221; Project has excavated the Church of St Nicholas which will eventually house a heritage centre.<\/p>\n<p style=\"border: 0px; color: #404040; font-family: Helmet, Freesans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1rem; line-height: 1.375; margin: 18px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\">The Kirk, which was a witches prison in the 1500s, has an iron ring in the walls where women and men convicted of witchcraft were chained before being burned at the stake.<\/p>\n<p style=\"border: 0px; color: #404040; font-family: Helmet, Freesans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1rem; line-height: 1.375; margin: 18px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\">All the details were carefully recorded in archives which will be put on public display.<\/p>\n<p style=\"direction: ltr;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New light has been shed on the persecution of &#8216;witches&#8217; during the transformation of a 900-year-old church. The &#8220;Mither Kirk&#8221; Project has excavated the Church of St Nicholas which will eventually house a heritage centre. The Kirk, which was a witches prison in the 1500s, has an iron ring in the walls where women and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4843","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category----discoveries-surveys-of-tourist-si"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tourismworld-seyaha.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4843","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tourismworld-seyaha.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tourismworld-seyaha.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tourismworld-seyaha.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tourismworld-seyaha.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4843"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tourismworld-seyaha.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4843\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tourismworld-seyaha.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tourismworld-seyaha.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tourismworld-seyaha.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}