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Ashes and Stones

A Scottish Journey in Search of Witches and Witness

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Ashes and Stones

Yazan: Allyson Shaw
Seslendiren: Lucy Paterson
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'It's summer. I stand where perhaps Ellen stood, in this ground thick with new thistle and long grass. She would have ken 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.'

A beautifully written journey through Scottish history and across the Scottish landscape in search of the women accused and killed during the witch hunts.

Ashes and Stones is a moving and personal journey, along rugged coasts and through remote villages and modern cities, in search of the traces of those accused of witchcraft in seventeenth-century Scotland. We visit modern memorials, roadside shrines and standing stones, and roam among forests and hedge mazes, folk lore 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 threads of history and feminist reclamation, alongside beautiful travel, nature and memoir writing, 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 modern women to the horrors of the past, and it is record of resilience and a call to choose and remember our ancestors.

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Allyson Shaw has built a monument in words to the thousands persecuted as witches in Scotland. A fascinating and necessary book. (Peter Ross)
In Ashes and Stone Shaw has written a compelling and intimate pilgrimage across Scotland as she visits the sites of notorious witch trials to connect with and comment on the memorials left there to the murdered people who perished through greed, misogyny, and superstition . . . The book is a fascinating exploration of the search for personal identity, the ever-present dangers of religious and political extremism, and how we examine and process the murderous injustices from our past (Helen Callaghan)
An incantational group biography infused with personal narrative . . . Shaw pays homage to the hunted while elevating modern self-identified witches as feminist archetypes (Abigail Santamaria)
Beautiful . . . A moving reminder for us all to connect with what's gone before
Wonderful . . . Powerful . . . it will make you angry, it will make you sad, it will make you want to know so much more
Sometimes the truth behind myths and legends is more fascinating and terrible than could ever be imagined . . . Ashes & Stones is its own reminder of a dark period in Scotland's past, but also carries a warning for the present day . . . This is not the book you think it is, and it is all the better for it
Allyson Shaw's journey around Scotland in search of witches and witness is both deeply insightful and profoundly respectful. Shaw's writing is utterly compelling and her perspective is vital. I was spellbound from start to finish, Ashes & Stones is a work of devotion. This is what it means to write with care and with candour. Ashes & Stones is both genuine memorial and galvanising activism in book form (Sally Huband, author of Sea Bean)
Very atmospheric, scholarly - and gripping . . . [Shaw] gives life to many of the women burned as witches in Scotland. Shocking and important - it made me realise this hasn't been done before, nor have I questioned why until now. Recommended. (Laline Paull)
The past is a treacherous landscape shrouded in the mists of myth and misogyny, and Shaw is the sun burning through to reveal clear paths and daunting vistas alike. Profound, personal, and tragically timely, this is more than an important book - it's a requiem that rises to a rallying cry (Jesse Bullington, author of The Folly of the World)
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A wonderfully written and narrated tale that tell the lives of women put on trial as witches in Scotland. It's super emotive and informative and I loved it, and mourned through it for the unimaginable suffering of those women persecuted by Men and the church. I hope that this book, and others like it, is the beginning of the end of the cartoon witch and the tourist attraction witch to be replaced by real remembrance and memorial of the women that were tortured and murdered for the sake of superstition and ignorance. highly recommend.

A feminist triumph

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The narration is impossibly bad. Very mannered and accent incorrect for an American writer. The book itself is well-researched but the personal anecdotes make it fundamentally unserious as a history. Like an overly long blog entry.

The research was good, but writing a bit florid and narration genuinely horrible.

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The narrator was a good choice as the Scots accent was better than the American one it could have had. Interesting but why on earth did we end up on a rant about Genders and Metoo in the last 10 minutes..? Put me off. so turned off and didn't listen to the last 8-9 mins,.

Great until the epilogue

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i absolutely loved this book. it is beautifully written and well read.
The sense of history, place, politics and most importantly, the voices of women, are present throughout.
I particularly loved the reflections on the power of representations within the landscape

Amazing book

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A creative non-fiction book detailing Allyson’s investigation of the women hunted and killed during the Scottish witch trials that occurred during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, Allyson provides a perfect description of what she has written:

Ashes and Stones is a moving and personal journey, along rugged coasts and through remote villages and modern cities, in search of the traces of those accused of witchcraft in seventeenth-century Scotland.
– Allyson Shaw’s website

As someone who has taken the title of witch for myself this was alway a book I was going to read, as I am fully aware that none of those women would have chosen the title for themselves and this reclamation comes with a responsibility to acknowledge those who had the title and a terrible fate thrust upon them. Allyson does more than acknowledge them, she brings them back to life and offers them a living memorial built of words.

She writes with a fluid lucidity that at times belies the subject matter but often brings it into sharp contrast with the way the trials are currently represented in both popular culture and some of the modern histories that elide the truth into something palatable. This is not just a history but also a reanimation of these women who have no graves, and had little or no voice in their own time, and also a reimagining of the lives and deaths. Allyson makes it very clear when she is sharing historical record and when she is painting their portraits with words from conjecture and her deep understanding of the folklore and beliefs of the time. It is nothing short of magic, the best possible use of this sort of spell.

There were a few times where I felt almost battered by some of the points Allyson chose to repeat and reiterate but given the subject matter this also feels like a valid and brave choice. The women accused were subjected to brutal treatment that was meted out by men who themselves never had to answer for what they did as they were backed by the full force of the law, it’s not pleasant and it does bear repetition.

I also really enjoyed the way Allyson wove her own journey in creating the book into the text. It added a context and level of intimacy that felt both necessary and right. I sincerely recommend that anyone with even a passing interest in history, feminism or witchcraft read this book. I listened to it on audible and found Lucy Paterson to be an excellent and sympathetic narrator.

Fascinating

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