The Devil's in Her

In Scotland, five times as many people, mostly women, were accused of the crime of witchcraft and executed than anywhere else in Europe. As these same beliefs spread to the North of Ireland, it had terrible consequences for a beggar woman in Antrim.

Scottish settlers arriving in the north of Ireland bring with them a belief in witchcraft that will bear terrible consequences for eight women and one man who will forever be known as the Islandmagee Witches.

The European witch-hunts were coming to an end and women's knowledge of the supernatural was now being belittled as 'superstitious' nonsense by the church and ruling elite.

Biddy Early, a bean feasa and a healer, is a powerful symbol of resistance against the culture that produced the horror of the European witch hunts.