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Scottish BookAshes and Stones: A Scottish Journey in Search of Witches and Witness (Paperback)
Author: Allyson Shaw
£12.95
Scotland
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Add for £10Ashes and Stones: A Scottish Journey in Search of Witches and Witness follows Allyson Shaw’s travels across Scotland’s coasts and villages as she traces the histories, memorials and landscapes tied to seventeenth-century women accused of witchcraft, linking past persecution with folklore, place and remembrance. For readers interested in historical travel, Scottish culture and reclaimed women’s narratives.
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Why we chose this book
We came away feeling that remembrance is not decoration, it is work, and this book insists we do it properly.
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As Independent Scottish booksellers, we write all of our descriptions personally, we hope you enjoy this one.
Along Scotland’s ragged coasts and through remote villages, Ashes & Stones follows a search for the women accused of witchcraft in the seventeenth century. The journey moves from fairy hills to hedge mazes, reading the land for what it still remembers, and for what has been worn away.
Allyson Shaw traces the marks these stories have left on the landscape, holding close to the fact that they were lives, not folklore. By linking the lives of contemporary women to the horrors of the past, she builds a record of resilience and remembrance, attentive to the ways fear and power can shape what a community chooses to believe.
As she untangles the myth of witchcraft, the book sets out to give voice to those erased by it, returning them to the places where their traces remain.
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