11th Century Scotland and Witchcraft Throughout history, tales of witchcraft and spells have been passed on for generations. Each culture has its own variations of certain amulets. A few common phrases, symbols, and signs that we use today are also used in 11th century Scotland. Often such things are often seen in horror movies or pieces of literature, such as Macbeth. In Shakespeare’s Macbeth, you are introduced to three witches, in the first scene of act 1, they are described to be ugly beings with no definite determination of gender. While researching it was stated that these three witches were "black witches". Two different types of witches were black and white witc