Often easily overlooked is this fountain at the top of Castlehill near to Edinburgh Castle. It is known as “The Witches Well” and is near the site where many women were burned at the stake. Attempts at early healing include ‘magical practices’ some of which relied on herbs, bloodletting and charms before the evolution of…
Month: November 2019
Pictish Symbols
Complex symbolism exists in a distinctive style of art which developed in parts of northern and and eastern Scotland during the later part of the 1st millennium AD. This was part of a complex belief system connected to the Picts or peoples inhabiting these lands. “The Picts” or (painted peoples) were so described by the…
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