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Category: Scotland

The Last Witch of Scotland

October 23, 2022 ~ Kate Cherrell ~ 1 Comment

What may seem to be a simple piece of masonry is in fact the memorial to the most brutal and hysterical of executions.

Ye Olde Eco-Burial: The Trapdoor Coffin

November 4, 2021 ~ Kate Cherrell ~ Leave a comment

In the 16th and 17th centuries, plenty of rural parishes in Scotland utilised a communal coffin of sorts called a ‘common mortkist’, ‘bier’ or ‘parish coffin’.

Andrew Hyslop; Covenanter, Martyr.

May 29, 2021May 28, 2021 ~ Kate Cherrell ~ Leave a comment

One postcard lead to a story of a murdered covenanter who ended his days in a field in Dumfriesshire

4 Fake Cemetery Ghosts: The weird, the drunk and the monkey.

August 1, 2020 ~ Kate Cherrell ~ Leave a comment

The long  and delightful tradition of going ‘wooooo’ in cemeteries to frighten passers-by is a rarely celebrated phenomenon.

Collection Feature: Agnes Sturgeon

April 22, 2020 ~ Kate Cherrell ~ 1 Comment

The life of Agnes Sturgeon has expanded beyond her small, folded memorial.

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