Maggie Wall Monument Witch 1657
© explorescotland.netThe Monument of Maggie Wall, simply says โ€œMaggie Wall burnt here as a witch โ€“ 1657โ€ She was one of over 4,000 women executed for witchcraft in Scotland during the 16th & 17th Centuries. These executions are often well documented but surprisingly there are no records for Maggie Wall. It is also surprising to have a memorial, (the only one of its kind in Scotland) particularly one with a cross to a witch. Is it a mark of shame and repentance for those responsible? Located beside the B8062 to Auchterarder Road
A Scottish nobleman is building a maze in memory of the men and women executed as witches on his estate in the 17th century.

The Witches' Maze at Tullibole Castle near Kinross will have a pillar in the center with the names of those convicted and put to death in 1662, The Scotsman reported. Lord Moncrieff said the maze will be a monument to rationalism.

Five stones surrounding the pillar will have what he calls "good words" like "tolerance" while dead ends in the maze will have negative words.

"If you don't use logic inside the maze you will come to a dead end," Moncrieff, a historian, said. "Appropriately, in this year of Darwin's anniversary, the maze has evolved into a plea for people to think rationally. It is my intention that the memorial to the innocents will also be a damning attack on the ignorant and superstitious beliefs of the past as well as of the present day. My plan is to have other meanings and deeper symbolism in the maze, but I don't want to explain it all at this stage."