Wives and Witches

Learning Outcomes

As a result of viewing this programme, pupils should:

• understand that the King and many others believed in the power of witchcraft
  
• appreciate that falsely accused women confessed because of the use of torture
  
• know that James faced an enemy called Bothwell
  
• understand that James claimed that he ruled as King as God's chosen representative on Earth
  
• realise the importance to James of the birth of his son