This is tradition and verse recorded in a 1911 collection, and the book describes the idea of an organised witch society as traditional or ideal, not as documented fact. The Lochar Moss tale is an origin story for a real landscape: the moss is low ground that was once tidal.
Witchcraft
Locharbriggs Hill and the Gyre Carline
Locharbriggs Hill, near Dumfries
Tradition
- Evidence
- Long-standing local tradition
- Access
- Access unrecorded
- Location
- 55.105, -3.570 (Parish-level only, treat as an area)
Sources: J. Maxwell Wood, Witchcraft and Superstitious Record in the South-Western District of Scotland (1911) [public-domain]
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