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Scotland Outdoors

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What's the Revenant Grave of a Witch?

This is the only known, no-one-revenant grave we have relating to a witch. Why did she end up out here with a big sandstone block on top of the wooden box that she was buried in? Well, archaeologically, that's the great interest of this whole story. Sadly, we have records of perhaps four and a half thousand more individuals who were persecuted in Scotland as accused witches between 1563 and 1727. They had an incredibly toxic problem. How to deal with this individual and to dispose of her in such a way to stop her coming back to terrorize the living community. For most of the day, the site is covered by the tide. You can

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