If anyone is interested in the history of the witch accusations in Scotland - Witches of Scotland are a great source of Info . They have a podcast and a book out and a fb page .

There are numerous places in Scotland linked to the witch accusations Culross - kept in the town hall and some bodies were dumped in the shore line after . Locals were finding bones up until relatively recently when the tide was out Torryburn ( an old wifie was accused , imprisoned and tortured for being a witch - she died in culross prison - and was buried under a large slab in torryburn coastline . This was because the locals thought she would come back and seek revenge - the slab is still there though her body isn’t . It was stolen and part of her coffin was made into a walking stick for Andrew carneigie . Paisley - a marker in the middle of a cross roads in paisley shows where the ashes were dumped after numerous people were killed for witchcraft and burnt . Skye - a tacksman from clan Macdonald murdered a beggar woman who went to his house to beg . He and his men bound her up and put her feet to the fire to get a confession . He left her to crawl to another house for help where she died in agony 12 days later . This was after witchcraft persecution was outlawed and of course he got off with it . Bo’ness - there is a stone in Bo’ness where women were murdered for witchcraft. Elgin - the murder pot . There used to be a large pool of water here . Those accused of witchcraft were drowned .

Mugdock - as above . Pitenweem - a mob attacked and brutally killed a woman accused of being a witch St monans - the ashes from the burnings of those accused of being witches were kept in the church spire I’m sure there are a lot more Ive forgotten !