Witch Craft

This rather awesome piece of artwork by Andy Lee, has been laser etched into wood. It features a reimagining of Mary Lamont, the young Inverkip girl who was executed as a witch during the areas infamous witch trials.

Copies of this limited edition print, created for Newark Products, will be available exclusively from The Dutch Gable House shop during the Galoshans Festival later this month.

From next week, the Dutch Gable House shop is open from 10 - 4 Thursday, Friday and Saturday until Christmas.

Here is the original lineart Andy produced for the piece

If this has inspired you to stage your own Witch Trial, perhaps giving it a happier ending, why not download our Everyman play The Orchard, based on the Renfrewshire Witch Trials...

Galoshans Are Go!

Haunted Air

As ever at this time of year, we like to give you the opportunity to download our FREE Galoshans / Witch Trial plays for you to entertain and horrify family and friends. And remember, if you do perform the plays, why not record and share them. (yknow...within reason...)

You can hear more about Galoshans and other local traditions, at the Traditions In Place festival this weekend in the Beacon Arts Centre.

The Galoshans Play by Paul J Bristow

The Orchard by Paul J Bristow

Live from the Witch Trials

So far this October, we've recommended a visit to the Edinburgh Dungeon and given you your very own Witch Trial to perform. You can read the sad story of Inverkip Witch Mary Lamont in the Identity Graphic Novel.

And over on my own blog, feel the wrath of the Troubleshooter General or discover A Cure For Witches.

If you're looking for a whole evening of scary stories, then check out Ether books, you can download sixty free scary stories, including one from myself.

Rounding off a month of witch recommendations, The Eccentronic Research Council and actress Maxine Peake have recorded 1612 Underture, an old school concept album based on the Pendle Witch Trials. The krautrock road trip has the band travelling round the North of England exploring the truth of the Pendle Witches, and their legacy today. Highest recommendations, especially the Cameron bashing of "Ghost of Old Lizzy Southerns Returns"




In a similar vein and just cos...The Fall...



And finally...a wee bit of Monty Python....