Post by Geoff on Feb 16, 2010 11:46:31 GMT -5
Robert Burns lived for a time at the foot of Bank Street, Dumfries. Bank Street leads onto the Whitesands, where nine convicted (so-called) witches were legally strangled and burned on July 13th 1659. Did the story enflame his imagination 130 years later?
350 years later, January 2009, at the same place: www.youtube.com/watch?v=QHeLrJUpdkU&feature=related
Some brilliant pictures of Tam o'Shanter at Dumfries: kimayres.blogspot.com/2009/01/burns-light-festival-in-dumfries.html
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Interesting story of Bessie Dunlop (-1576) the witch of Dalry, Ayrshire, Burns Corridor, burned at the stake.
www.mysteriousbritain.co.uk/scotl....h-of-dalry.html
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Isabel or Bell M’Ghie, (1760-1836) born at Kelton, Kirkcudbrightshire, Burns Corridor later residing at Beith in Ayrshire, Burns Corridor, was ‘Last of the Ayrshire witches’.
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Witches were in the news as recently as 2008, when an official pardon was granted by the Swiss government to Anna Goeldi who was beheaded in 1782. She is regarded as the last person executed as a witch in Europe. This was four years before Burns' First Edition and eight before Tam o'Shanter. It would be interesting to know whether Robert Burns had thought of this as he wrote Tam o'Shanter.
goddesschess.blogspot.com/2007/09/europes-last-witch-hunt.html
350 years later, January 2009, at the same place: www.youtube.com/watch?v=QHeLrJUpdkU&feature=related
Some brilliant pictures of Tam o'Shanter at Dumfries: kimayres.blogspot.com/2009/01/burns-light-festival-in-dumfries.html
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Interesting story of Bessie Dunlop (-1576) the witch of Dalry, Ayrshire, Burns Corridor, burned at the stake.
www.mysteriousbritain.co.uk/scotl....h-of-dalry.html
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Isabel or Bell M’Ghie, (1760-1836) born at Kelton, Kirkcudbrightshire, Burns Corridor later residing at Beith in Ayrshire, Burns Corridor, was ‘Last of the Ayrshire witches’.
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Witches were in the news as recently as 2008, when an official pardon was granted by the Swiss government to Anna Goeldi who was beheaded in 1782. She is regarded as the last person executed as a witch in Europe. This was four years before Burns' First Edition and eight before Tam o'Shanter. It would be interesting to know whether Robert Burns had thought of this as he wrote Tam o'Shanter.
goddesschess.blogspot.com/2007/09/europes-last-witch-hunt.html