The devil's accomplice, which the pious fellow citizens pilfered for souvenirs (5 photos)

“I will return, I will take revenge, you will all regret it!” Approximately such hackneyed cliches are used by filmmakers when creating horror films about innocently killed.





And in the case of the Scottish Lilias Adi, everything happened differently. She would be glad to rest in peace, but her fellow citizens would not let her.

The practice of accusations of witchcraft in Europe persisted until until the first quarter of the 19th century. Someone did it, sincerely believing in machinations evil forces, others out of envy or harmfulness. Regardless of the reasons those accused of witchcraft (usually women) were burned at the stake. AND all that remained of them was ashes and memories.



Lilias is an exception. Behind the prescription of years (it was in 1704 year) no longer know the exact causes of the conflict with a neighbor. But more likely everything, it was some kind of nonsense. Adi was charged with witchcraft by denunciation of a neighbor. She confessed (still, under torture and not in such a confess), was recognized as an accomplice of the devil and sentenced to standard burning.

But something went wrong. And before the "significant" event the woman did not survive. Either the heart could not stand it, or they made themselves known interrogation consequences. Perhaps she simply decided to voluntarily die.



But be that as it may, the executors got a cold corpse, and not a handful of ashes, as planned. And with the body they did what was supposed to be - buried in the usual way. True, outside the village of Torryburn County of Fife. And a heavier slab was used for a tombstone. But not from respect, and that, therefore, did not get out.

Yes, the people sincerely believed that confessed to the service With the powers of the devil, a witch may well pull off such a thing. Is it true, if she decided to carry out the plan, what would prevent Lilias from getting out, making a tunnel slightly away from the stove? Apparently, about such trifles, medieval citizens did not think. There is an order, it is observed, which means that everything is normal.

Finding no rest



Years passed. The year 1852 has come. These days these

ghouls

respectable gentlemen would be called black diggers. But then this a category of citizens was delicately called antique dealers. And these "antiques" - born businessmen, not afraid of the devil or god, dug up the place burials, tore the coffin and the remains apart, divided and sold (presumably profitable) the same

ghouls

lovers of the unknown and respected collectors.



Facial reconstruction by Lilias Ady

After long wanderings, the unfortunate skull ended up in the University Saint Andrews. And in 2017, a woman’s face was reconstructed from it. Which is actually the only Scottish (and perhaps not only) a witch whose appearance was recreated. As you can see, Lilias She was quite ordinary and even pretty.

Archaeologists found what was left of the burial. Authorities Fife counties plan to install on the grave of the only witch, who did not get on the fire, a memorial in honor of all the accused and burned girlfriends by misfortune.

Before that, it would be nice to collect the bone remains women. But for now, an appeal to collectors languishing over their "treasures", in whose collections there are definitely Lilias bones, remains no answer. The memorial is only in the plans, and the unfortunate Adi has not yet found peace in the afterlife.