Forfar Witches

Found this headstone sitting in a stone circle beside the Loch sheltered under a hawthorn tree marking a communal witches grave.

Each of the 22 dots represents a local thought to be a witch.

In reality they were likely normal people who maybe lived life a little differently, in the wrong place at the wrong time, and whose only sin was maybe even as simple as having a squint eye.

Some of them were accused by Helen Guthrie a self confessed witch who sounds like a mad woman herself.

Made me stop and think that was for sure.

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