The Cadies & Witchery Tours
Compiled from The Cadies & Witchery Tours
The Witchery Tours take a light-heated look at Edinburgh’s darker side including tales of witchcraft, plague, body-snatching and torture.
Your ghostly guide through the dark alleyways and eerie courtyards is none other than Adam Lyal, Highwayman, executed for his crimes in the Grassmarket on March 27th 1811.
Adam Lyal (deceased) will blend history with humour and facts with fables, while ‘jumper-ooters’ provide guaranteed ghastly appearances.
The walking tour will include history on the “Witchcrazes” in Scotland, which lasted from 1479 - 1722 , along with what a witchcraft trial involved, including the tortures used to extract confessions. Beware there will be some audience participation!
The executions by hanging in Edinburgh (the means by which Adam Lyal met his own end), along with some of the other (slightly less lethal) punishments applied for various crimes will be covered on The Cadies & Witchery Tours.
You will learn about the last great Plague in Edinburgh (1645), what it was like and what caused it. Let’s not forget the subject of bodysnatching, in particular the crimes of Messrs Burke and Hare, and the gruesome methods they used to acquire bodies for the anatomists.
In addition to these stories are many other related and incidental tales (of which there are so many that it takes the tour itself to cover them) and all of them told in the locations where the events themselves
occurred. Don’t miss this experience!
Tours operate every evening and depart from outside the Witchery Restaurant, Castlehill, The Royal Mile (near Edinburgh Castle).
Booking in advance is essential. Beware! You undertake our ghostly trips at your own risk!
The Cadies & Witchery Tours
84 West Bow (Victoria Street)
Edinburgh, EH1 2HH
TEL: 0131 225 6745
FAX: 0131 220 2086
WEB: www.witcherytours.com
www.adamlyal.com
E-MAIL: lyal@witcherytours.demon.co.uk
