The Magic of the Festival
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The Magic of the Festival
Image: © kim traynor Taken: 23 Aug 2011
One of the many impressively attired street performers in the High Street during the Edinburgh Festival. I can't help feeling there was a time when her performance wouldn't have gone down so well. "9 Marche, being Weddinsday, thair wer fyve wemen, witches, brint on the Castelhill for witchcraft, all of thame confessand thair covenanting with Satan, sum of thame renunceand thair baptisme, and all of thame oftymes dancing with the Devill." -- Diary of John Nicoll, 1659
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