Scotland Magazine

WHICH WITCH?

“Maggie Wall burnt here 1657 as a witch”.

So reads the white, hand-painted declaration on a crude, cross-topped cairn just outside the village of Dunning in Perthshire. Maggie Wall’s Memorial is a sober reminder of a dark chapter in Scottish history, but what makes it even more interesting is that we have no idea

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