Ashes and Stones: A Journey Through Scotland in Search of Women Hunted as Witches by Shaw, Allyson
Ashes and Stones: A Journey Through Scotland in Search of Women Hunted as Witches by Shaw, Allyson

Ashes and Stones: A Journey Through Scotland in Search of Women Hunted as Witches

A moving and personal journey, along rugged coasts and through remote villages and cities, in search of...
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SKU: 9781639365296
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Author: Allyson Shaw
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
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Ashes and Stones: A Journey Through Scotland in Search of Women Hunted as Witches by Shaw, Allyson

Ashes and Stones: A Journey Through Scotland in Search of Women Hunted as Witches

$74.94
Ashes and Stones: A Journey Through Scotland in Search of Women Hunted as Witches by Shaw, Allyson

Ashes and Stones: A Journey Through Scotland in Search of Women Hunted as Witches

$74.94
Author: Allyson Shaw
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Description
A moving and personal journey, along rugged coasts and through remote villages and cities, in search of the traces of those accused of witchcraft in seventeenth-century Scotland.

'It's summer. I stand where perhaps Ellen stood, in this ground thick with new thistle and long grass. She would have kenned 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.'

In Ashes and Stones 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.

Allyson Shaw untangles the myth of witchcraft and gives voice to those erased by it. Her elegant and lucid prose weaves together threads of history and feminist reclamation to create a vibrant memorial. This is the untold story of the witches' monuments of Scotland and the women's lives they mark. Ashes and Stones is a trove of folklore linking the lives of contemporary women to the horrors of the past, a record of resilience and a call to choose and remember our ancestors.

Author: Allyson Shaw
Publisher: Pegasus Books
Published: 10/03/2023
Pages: 304
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.09lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.79d
ISBN: 9781639365296

About the Author
Allyson Shaw has worked as a professional writer for the last thirty years. Her writing on folklore and history has appeared in numerous journals and anthologies including Monster Verse: Poems Human and Inhuman in the Everyman's Library Pocket Poets Series, Rituals and Declarations and The Bottle Imp. She spent her formative years in California and now lives on the northeast coast of Scotland. Find her online at www.allysonshaw.com.
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