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Old Photograph Witch Stone Dornoch Scotland
Old photograph of the Witch Stone outside a cottage in Littletown in Dornoch, Scotland. This stone commemorates the last person to be burnt as a witch in Scotland. Janet Horne and her daughter were arrested in Dornoch in Scotland and imprisoned on the accusations of her neighbours. Horne was showing signs of senility, and her daughter had a deformity of her hands and feet. The neighbours accused Horne of having used her daughter as a pony to ride to the Devil, where she had her shod by him. The trial was conducted very quickly; the sheriff had both of them judged guilty and sentenced to be burned at the stake. The daughter managed to escape, but Janet was stripped, smeared with tar, paraded through the town on a barrel and burned alive in 1727.
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