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Monday 27 July 2009

Golden Gates Colinsburgh East Neuk of Fife Scotland


An old photograph of the Golden Gates, Colinsburgh, East Neuk of Fife, Scotland.

Tuesday 14 July 2009

Old Town Hall Crail East Neuk of Fife Scotland


An old photograph of the Town Hall, Crail, East Neuk of Fife, Scotland.

Monday 13 July 2009

Balcomie Golf Course Crail East Neuk of Fife Scotland


An old photograph of the Balcomie Golf Course, Crail, East Neuk of Fife, Scotland.

Sunday 12 July 2009

Herring Fishing East Neuk of Fife Scotland


An old photograph of herring fishing boats in the East Neuk of Fife, Scotland.

Friday 10 July 2009

Leven Road Lundin Links East Neuk of Fife Scotland


An old photograph of Leven Road, Lundin Links, East Neuk of Fife, Scotland.

Thursday 2 July 2009

Fisherman's House Cellardyke East Neuk of Fife Scotland


Fisherman's House, Cellardyke, East Neuk of Fife, Scotland. A holiday home, comfortably furnished, with spectacular sea views.

Wednesday 1 July 2009

Holiday House Cellardyke East Neuk of Fife Scotland


Holiday House, Cellardyke, East Neuk of Fife, Scotland. This charming holiday house is just 45 yards from the sea.

Monday 29 June 2009

Crail Holiday Cottage East Neuk of Fife Scotland


Crail Holiday Cottage, East Neuk of Fife, Scotland. Charming stone holiday cottage.

Monday 15 June 2009

Historic Anstruther East Neuk of Fife Scotland


Historic Anstruther in the East Neuk of Fife, Scotland.

Saturday 13 June 2009

White Houses Pittenweem East Neuk of Fife Scotland


White houses at Pittenweem, East Neuk of Fife, Scotland.

Thursday 4 June 2009

Largo Mill East Neuk of Fife Scotland


An old view of Largo Mill, East Neuk of Fife, Scotland.

Tuesday 14 April 2009

Pittenweem Tolbooth East Neuk of Fife Scotland


Pittenweem Tolbooth, East Neuk of Fife, Scotland. The Tolbooth was home to one of the last and most infamous witchcraft trials in Scotland. The dark events took place in the year 1704, at a time when the Church elders were the supreme arbiters of power in Scotland, with the country a theocracy in all but name. The tragedy began innocuously enough when a local woman, Beatrix Lang, asked the blacksmith's apprentice, Patrick Morton, to make her some nails. On being informed that he was busy and would make them later, Beatrix left, muttering under her breath, which the boy took to be the issuing of a curse on him. Obviously under the power of suggestion of this, Patrick Morton took ill after a few days and stopped eating, which obviously made him worse, but not before he had spoken to the local minister, Patrick Cowper, a man who obviously had his own agenda in this case. Cowper not only encouraged the boy in his claims of witchcraft against Beatrix Lang, but also gave him the names of other villagers encouraging him to denounce them in turn.

The accused were imprisoned in the tolbooth and tortured viciously, with one of their number, Thomas Brown, starving to death in his cell. Beatrix Lang was released with a fine, but chased out of the village by the locals to die in St Andrews soon after, most likely as a result of her ill-treatment. The zenith of the barbarity of the Pittenweem witch hunt was reached when Janet Cornfoot managed to escape from the tolbooth. She did not however escape from the village, and the locals, her neighbours, dragged her to the beach, where she was beaten, pelted with stones, covered with a door which then had boulders placed on top of it and finally, after death, had a horse and carriage driven back and forth over her body.

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