"The Scottish public is being consulted on a memorial in Fife for people condemned as witches"
“Scottish records inform that between the 16th and 18th centuries there were at least 1,400 executions of people accused of witchcraft , and witches lie at the very heart of the country’s folkloric system. The newly proposed witch memorial will be the focus of discussions next Thursday evening at the Torryburn and Newmills Community Centre, which will include an information point offering the history behind Scotland’s witch persecutions.
She Served Hard, Hard Time
For the monument, the councilors say that they have in their possession an 1840s Beamer navigation beacon which was designed by Stevenson, whose nanny Alison Cunningham was born in Torryburn. This particular Fife town has been chosen for the memorial because it was the home of Lilias Adie who died in prison in 1704, before being convicted, strangled, and burned at the stake for having sex with the devil. Adie was eventually buried beneath a stone on a beach in Torryburn in a paranoid effort to stop her returning from the grave.
A CNN article from September features a digital reconstruction of Lilias Adie that was designed by scientists at Dundee University; and Douglas Speirs, an archaeologist for Fife Council, told CNN that she was a victim of a “short-lived witch-hunting craze" in the Fife area. Around 3,500 women were executed as witches in Scotland between 1560 and 1727 AD and Adie was arrested in her late 50s or early 60s and after having been “treated roughly” in prison - being deprived of sleep and routinely interrogated - a confession was easily extracted from the woman.”
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