A moving and personal journey, along rugged coasts and Through remote villages and cities, in Search of the traces of those accused of witchcraft in seventeenth-century Scotland.
Ashes and Stones is a trove of folklore linking the lives of contemporary Women to the horrors of the past, a record of resilience and a call to choose and remember our ancestors..
This is the untold story of the witches\' monuments of Scotland and the women\'s lives they mark.
Her elegant and lucid prose weaves together threads of history and feminist reclamation to create a vibrant memorial.
Allyson Shaw untangles the myth of witchcraft and gives voice to those erased by it.
From fairy hills to forgotten caves, we explore a spellbound landscape.
She would have kenned this coast in all weathers: in the summer when it was as gentle as a lake and in the winter, with the high winds and stinging salt spray.\' In Ashes and Stones we visit modern memorials and standing stones, and roam among forests and hedge mazes, folklore and political fantasies.
I stand where perhaps Ellen stood, in this ground thick with new thistle and long grass. \'It\'s summer.
A moving and personal journey, along rugged coasts and Through remote villages and cities, in Search of the traces of those accused of witchcraft in seventeenth-century Scotland
