Annotation:Witches Hill (The)

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X:1 T:Witches Hill, The M:C L:1/8 R:Slow Air C:Abraham Macintosh S:Macintosh – Thirty New Strathspey Reels (1792) K:Amin E|A>BcB .A.E.E.^F|G>DB,>.D G>A.B.E|A>B.c.d e>de>g|dB (e/d/)(c/B/) A2A:|| B|(c/d/e/f/ g>)a .g.e.c.e|dgd>c .B.G.G.B|(c/d/e/f/ g>)a .g.e.c.e|dB (e/d/)(c/B/) A3B| (c/d/e/f/ g>)a .g.e.c.e|dgdc BGG>B|A>Bc>d e>d.e.g|dB (e/d/)(c/B/) {B}A2||

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WITCHES HILL, THE. Scottish, Slow Air (whole time). A Minor. Standard tuning (fiddle). AAB. Composed by biography:Abraham Mackintosh (1769-1807), appearing in his Thirty New Strathspey Reels Etc. (Edinburgh, c. 1792, p. 5). Abraham was the son of the renowned fiddler-composer Robert Mackintosh. Toward the end of the 18th century he relocated from Edinburgh to the north of England, as his third collection of strathspey and reels records that he was a "Teacher of Dancing, Newcastle-upon-Tyne."

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.

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