Mummified cats, potions and amulets: inside Scotland's new museum of witchcraft

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If you fancy a witchy weekend, how about you head to the mystical world of Scotland's first witchcraft museum 🐈‍⬛ They have mummified cats, mystical amulets, and magic potions galore 👇

Edinburgh’s cobbled streets hold a vast amount of dark history – from the infamous body snatchers to the witch executions carried out atop the Royal Mile.

Mummified animals, mystical amulets and even ‘potion’ bottles that once belonged to people branded witches will all be displayed. The museum’s founder Ash Mills, 35, told Metro.co.uk: ‘Putting aside Edinburgh being the birth place of Harry Potter, Scotland actually already had a big history surrounding the the fear of witchcraft.Ash has spent years building up the collection of mystical items

Following on from the public apologies, Ash felt it was time to bring the true history of Scotland’s witches to a modern day audience.Despite being from Birmingham, he says Edinburgh is his ‘home at heart’ Other displays will highlight other spiritual items that once held great significance in people’s lives.

 

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