Episode 1-One woman among thousands
Show notes and links:
If you’d like to see my journalism articles in pubs that include NYT and Rolling Stone, they’re here.
Here’s a link to my tarot teacher, Lindsay Mack, who I first began working with around 2012. Her tarot school is called Tarot For the Wild Soul.
Here’s a link to the CNN article about Lilias Adie.
To the right, you’ll see the images of Lilias Adie’s skull. The original photographs of the skull were taken at St. Andrews University. Then, a forensic artist at Dundee University created the image of what Lilias Adie may have looked like when she was alive. When I saw this image of her, I felt a connection to the real person behind the story as I never had before. There’s just something about having a face. Some people in the podcast speculate that this rendering is too flattering and that Adie’s buck teeth would have stuck out more. I feel that she deserves to have a nice, humanizing rendering of herself, especially given what she endured. Several images were created like this for Adie. This one, as we’ll hear later, resulted from historian Louise Yeoman asking the artist to “make her look like a modern Fife pensioner,” again, for the purpose of making her story more real, more immediate.
Episode 2- A Dream, a Witchcraft Accusation, and a Death
Show notes:
The photo to the left is the “grave” where Lilias Adie was buried. As you can see, it’s in the mud of the intertidal zone. That large flat stone is the one that was laid over her coffin and likely still serves as a marker for the location of bones that may have been discarded when her grave was robbed. The grave is located in the town of Torryburn, Scotland.
