One tale goes that the witches helped to build the round tower in the village, a structure dated to about AD 1100. Abernethy was one of the eight groups in the 1662 Perthshire hunt, and Wikipedia calls the round tower one of only two surviving Irish-style round towers in Scotland. The paper is careful to say which accounts are local lore and which are archival records.
Witchcraft
The Witches' Walk and Witches' Cave at Abernethy
Hill above Abernethy
Undated tradition; Abernethy had accused in 1662
- Evidence
- Long-standing local tradition
- Access
- Open ground
- Location
- 56.333, -3.312 (Parish-level only, treat as an area)
Sources: Hallyburton and Gordon, 'Feart Maidens': the witches of Perthshire, Tayside and Fife Archaeological Journal 27 [other]; Wikipedia, Abernethy, Perth and Kinross [other]
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