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Halloween 2023: Why should we remember Fife and Tayside's 'witches'?

More than 3,800 women and men were accused in Scotland under the Witchcraft Act between 1563 and 1736, with two thirds being executed ....

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Top 10 Bizarre Witch Burials

The extreme nature of "witch" burials reflects how deep our fear of sorcery goes -even from beyond the grave. It is not uncommon for the witches to be ....

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Inverkeithing: Secrets of 14th century Friary uncovered as dig finds bones and pottery remains

ANIMAL bones and pieces of pottery are among the finds at an archaeological dig in Inverkeithing. ....

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Witches, Vampires and Werewolves – 10 Ghoulish Archaeological Discoveries

Archaeologists are quite familiar with the unearthing of human remains. ....

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Skulduggery: The night a surgeon robbed the bard's grave

by Michael Alexander
© Cheryl Livingstone
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Michael Alexander hears about the night in 1834 when a surgeon robbed the poet’s grave and stole his skull in the name of science
While the poetry of Robert Burns is mainly moving, melancholic and thoughtful, studies of his works suggest that the spectre of death was never far from his thoughts with references to epitaphs, reflections, and musings on the dead.
Burns wasn’t above the gritty detail either, as his “Epitaph for William Nicol” shows: Ye maggots, feed on Nicol’s brain. Having been poorly for much of his short adult life, Burns was only too well aware of his own mortality. ....

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