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Witches' Stone - Spott Village

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We came across this beautifully kept memorial of Marion Lillie.who died in 1705. It is not known when the stone was erected but for many years it was lost, covered in road debris and possibly moved due to roadworks in the Spott vicinity. The plaque that is at the Witches Stone now honours Marion Lillie as well as all of the other witches who lost their lives in the Witch hunts. The writing on it, penned by local poet Ruth Gilchrist reads:

“This stone has become a place to commemorate those local people who were once persecuted as witches. We cannot undo the hurt but we can let their souls go free”

In 2016 local children were invited to a workshop in the village hall to help make an art installation to go with the new plaque at the Witches' Stone. The workshop was hosted by East Lothian artist Alison Weightman. The children picked herbs and flowers from the hedgerows and these were taken back to the hall where their medicinal properties were researched in a medicinal encyclopaedia. Each child imprinted a clay tile with their leaves or flowers and wrote their medicinal properties on them using a letter press and turned into a beautiful, tilled, plinth which sits beneath the plaque.

We added.our offering to those that had been left.

This is a lovely place to visit. Do go, leave an offering and remember our brothers and sisters.

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