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TIL about the Witches Well, a (now) dry fountain installed outside Edinburgh Castle, in 1894, to memorialize the thousands of victims, mostly women, accused of witchcraft who were burned at the stake, nearby. It is the only such memorial to these victims in Scotland.

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