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|f_annotation=WITCHES HILL, THE. Scottish, Slow Air (whole time). A Minor. Standard tuning (fiddle). AAB. Composed by Abraham Macintosh, appearing in his '''Thirty New Strathspey Reels Etc.''' (Edinburgh, c. 1792). | |f_annotation='''WITCHES HILL, THE.''' Scottish, Slow Air (whole time). A Minor. Standard tuning (fiddle). AAB. Composed by Abraham Macintosh, appearing in his '''Thirty New Strathspey Reels Etc.''' (Edinburgh, c. 1792). | ||
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Witches Hill is the name of several small heights in Scotland, variously located, where, traditionally, witches were burnt. There is a Witches Hill near Duns in Berwickshire, one near the town of Kinghorn in the Kingdom of Fife, and a ''witchknowe'' (witches hill) in Glasgow (now a park), among others. There is even a Witches Hill in Salem, Massachusetts. | |||
|f_printed_sources=Johnson ('''A Twenty Year Anniversary Collection'''), 2003; p. 16. | |f_printed_sources=Johnson ('''A Twenty Year Anniversary Collection'''), 2003; p. 16. | ||
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WITCHES HILL, THE. Scottish, Slow Air (whole time). A Minor. Standard tuning (fiddle). AAB. Composed by Abraham Macintosh, appearing in his Thirty New Strathspey Reels Etc. (Edinburgh, c. 1792).
Witches Hill is the name of several small heights in Scotland, variously located, where, traditionally, witches were burnt. There is a Witches Hill near Duns in Berwickshire, one near the town of Kinghorn in the Kingdom of Fife, and a witchknowe (witches hill) in Glasgow (now a park), among others. There is even a Witches Hill in Salem, Massachusetts.
