memory, femicide, and the useful dead 🪶 revisiting the Janet Horne Memorial Stone on the full moon 🌝

Revisiting the memorial stone & the myth of the ‘last woman burned as a witch’ in Scotland in film & archival photos.

#AshesAndStones #Witches #Scotland #ScottishHighlands #FolkHorror #FeministHorror #WomenInHorror #SheWill #StandingStone #ScottishHistory
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🧵2/2 Now it has been adopted in living memory as a gravestone for the spaewife or wise woman, Grissell Jaffray, executed in Dundee, #Scotland in 1669.
I write about her incredible story, and the story of this stone, in my book Ashes & Stones #AshesAndStones #Witchsky #Booksky 💙📚