Lilias's Bones
The story of the only witch in Scotland with a grave and the search for her stolen bones.
In this podcast, American journalist Breena Kerr goes to Scotland to understand what happened during the European Witch Hunts, why hundreds of thousands were murdered, and the legacy that still endures today.
Lilias's Bones
Introducing: Lilias's Bones
Lilias Adie was a regular woman living in Scotland in 1704 when she was accused of witchcraft. By then, witch hunts had ravaged villages, towns, and cities across Europe for centuries. Lilias had survived other witch panics before. But when two women accused her of conspiring with the devil, she was taken into church custody, tortured, and forced to confess. Two weeks later she was dead. But unlike other accused witches in Scotland, Lilias was buried, not burned, because the local minister feared she would come back to life. Then, almost 150 years later, her grave was robbed and her skull began popping up in articles, paintings, and photographs — a second life that the 18th-century minister never could have seen coming. In this podcast, Journalist Breena Kerr goes to Scotland to unravel the mystery of what happened to Adie and her stolen bones.
