Ashes and Stones av Allyson Shaw

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<p><b>''Allyson Shaw has built a monument in words to the thousands persecuted as witches in Scotland. A fascinating and necessary book.'' Peter Ross</b><br><br><i>''It''s summer. I stand where perhaps Ellen stood, in this ground thick with new thistle and long grass. She would have ken this coast in all weathers: in the summer when it was as gentle as a lake and in the winter, with the high winds and stinging salt spray.''</i><br><br><b>A moving and personal journey, along rugged coasts and through remote villages and cities, </b><b>in search of the traces of those accused of witchcraft in seventeenth-century Scotland.</b><br><br>In <i>Ashes and Stones </i>we visit modern memorials and standing stones, and roam among forests and hedge mazes, folklore and political fantasies. From fairy hills to forgotten caves, we explore a spellbound landscape.<br><br>Allyson Shaw untangles the myth of witchcraft and gives voice to those erased by it. Her elegant and lucid prose weaves together threa