Allyson ShawRevisiting the memorial stone of the ‘last woman burned as a witch’ in Scotland in film and archival photos. (‘Janet Horne’ probably never existed but her myth persists because there were so many like her whose lives and deaths went unrecorded.)#AshesAndStones #ScottishWitches #Scotland #ScottishHighlands #FolkHorror #FeministHorror #WomenInHorror #SheWill #JanetHorne #ModernAntiquarian #Witch
#StandingStone #Menhir #Histodons
https://allysonshaw.com/2025/02/12/memory-femicide-and-the-useful-dead
memory, femicide, and the useful dead 🪶
revisiting the Janet Horne Memorial Stone on the full moon 🌝 Last month I watched She Will, an impressionistic, feminist horror film about Scottish witches set in the Highlands. Aging film star Veronica Ghent travels to a remote location to convalesce and instead finds herself transformed by the darkness she encounters there. I missed this…