A plea has been made for a memorial to honour nine innocent women strangled and burnt at the stake as witches in Dumfries more than 360 years ago.
Dumfriesshire poet Hugh McMillan, who describes himself as a student of Scotland’s “strange and undervalued history”, believes it is time there was a monument at the Whitesands or at least a plaque bearing their names.
He said: “Now that the Church of Scotland has formally apologised for the historical persecution and murder of so called ‘witches’, isn’t it time that Dumfries acknowledged the memory of the nine women strangled and burned in 1659 on the Whitesands?”
