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Remember Accused Witches of Scotland

“Dreaming of a Scottish Witches Memorial” in A Beautiful Resistance

August 25, 2020 | Allyson Shaw

I’m delighted that my essay “Dreaming of a Scottish Witches Memorial” will appear in A Beautiful Resistance in the Beyond Empire issue from Gods & Radicals Press in October. The issue can be preordered here: https://abeautifulresistance.org/a-beautiful-resistance-5-after-empire

 

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One of my favourite memorials to those accused of witchcraft—surrounded by snowdrops. This one is beside the Loch in Forfar.
I’ve been meaning to post about @peteralanross book, A Tomb With a View—it’s so delicious and I know so many of my friends and fellow taphophiles will love it. It touched me deeply and I didn’t want it to end. The best book I’ve read in a good, long while. #scottishgraveyards #gothic #goth #eldergoth #cemeteries #bookstagram #taphophile #momentomori
Excited my piece “Hillock” will appear in the upcoming issue of @ritualsdeclarations open for preorders now. It’s a personal perspective on the psychogeography of Isobel Gowdie’s sacred hill, Downie Hillock. This is a beautiful zine that takes you to unexpected places and enchantments. Thank you @lazcorp for continuing to support my work.
February’s New Moon Tale is an interlacing of stories about a hole in the ground in the middle of the peat bogs near Evie on Orkney: a cat ogress, the Hyndluljoth, or the poem of Hyndla from the Poetic Edda, and an old woman named Kit Huntling all converge in this story told for my Patrons. Subscribe here: https://www.patreon.com/Allysonshaw
Portraits of Barbara van Beck, 1640s #womancrushwednesday
In the Cairngorms. Mostly silence. This is heaven to me.

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