The record rests on Miller alone and I have found no corroboration in the witch trial records for the burgh. The Survey of Scottish Witchcraft database is the place to check a name or date. The place name survives as part of the tradition, which is as much as can be said for it.
Witchcraft
The Witch's Hole, Cromarty
Above the harbour, western Cromarty
Reign of Charles II (1660 to 1685), traditional
- Evidence
- Long-standing local tradition
- Access
- Access unrecorded
- Location
- 57.681, -4.035 (Parish-level only, treat as an area)
Sources: Hugh Miller, Scenes and Legends of the North of Scotland, Chapter VI, A Scottish Town of the 17th Century [public-domain]
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