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The Witchery Tour is a walking tour of the old part of Edinburgh....
with a difference.
Instead of culture and architecture the Witchery Tour covers the
dark side of Edinburgh's history: death, destruction, mayhem, murder, body
snatching, plague and other nice things.
 We were met
at the top of the Royal Mile by our tour guide Adam Lyall (Deceased). For
a man dead over a century he was very talkative. Within seconds of meeting
him we headed up to the castle for a bit of instruction on how to make
a witch confess.
Arlene was voted as the most likely to be a witch and had the thumbscrews applied. Fortunately Adam stopped tightening before Arlene's thumb ruptured!  |
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Adam telling the Scouts that Scotland burned more witches than any
other European Country.
A fact about which we can be justifiably proud in being a world leader!  |
| Then it was off to the terrace to hear about the hangings in the
Grassmarket. Especially about the hangings that took a long time and were
extremely gruesome.
After we heard of the fifteen minute long strangulation we were told of the ghost of Agnes who was burned as a with for making someone fall of a horse and making the de'il appear to bite a woman. Then just after we were told of the sanitation (Open the window and pour the lumpy bits out into the street) she appeared. As soon as she appeared, all the Scouts scattered, well all except Gary who has an unusual response to a terrifying situation, he dropped to the ground.  |
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| Agnes stayed around to terrify the Scouts for a while longer
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After Agnes left, the Scouts moved closer to Adam, just in case
she came back. We rounded up the strays then moved on down to the Cowgate
for tales about Burke and Hare, the notorious bodysnatchers who got
fed up waiting for people to die and killed them instead.
One of them turn King's Evidence and the other one was executed and then taken to be experimented upon like his victims. His skeleton is still on display in the university anatomy department. |
And then, as if on cue, a skeleton appeared, he ran through a screaming
crowd and, on cue, Gary dropped to the ground again.
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After we had rescued Gary we headed up the hill for story about the
mad monk, who appeared and searched us all for his finger !?!
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