Tickets | The Original St Andrews Witches Tour | 26/05/2008 | 0 comments
In 1583, the Kirk Session of St Andrews told Patrick Adamson, Archbishop of St Andrews, to hold a woman that he had accused of being a witch "close prisoner" in his castle.Somehow that woman, Alesoun Peirsoun, escaped. She had been accused of trying to heal the archbishop of an ailment that had kept him confined to his castle on the clifftop for three months.It is entirely possible that Patrick Adamson was complicit in Alesoun's escape since, in those days, the penalty for consorting...