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Edinburgh’s top celebrity sorcerer, and the winding streets of Grassmarket have become a charmer for those who were fascinated by its history of walking and paying homage.
Instead of a healthy story about an orphan who opposes the magical Nazis, this is the story of Major Thomas Weir, who after confessing to dating the devil, who gave him a magic stick, as well as participating in bestiality and incest, ordered to be “crossed into a stake between Edinburgh and Leith on the Monday following 11 April. and his body will be reduced to ashes. “
Hollywood has not yet called this particular Edinburgh magician, however, his death marked an ignominious ending for a guy who was once known as the West Bow Saint.
Before confessing in his poorly ill-health bed that he had served Satan, Weir had been a pillar of a network that already feared God more than usual.
Born in the late 17th century, some resources recommend that his mother would be foresighted and that his sister Grizel would later tell his interrogators that Weir had inherited from her his skill for witchcraft.
As far as the public knows, however, he was a strict Calvinist who signed the Solemn League and pact and served as an officer in the anti-realistic army. After serving under the Marquis de Montrose in the Pact Army, he has become commander of the Edinburgh Guard and when Montrose brought the city to be executed after converting the sides, he said Weir laughed at him with sagna and joy.
As a preacher, Weir was infamous: he prayed in the streets in a state of devoted fervour and visited local families to care for the other people who lived there, married women whose husbands were not at home, while using a black cane with a human being. carved head on top. He leaned into preaching.
Despite the theatricality of his public behavior, which included putting his hat on his face if he encountered a Catholic or an Anglican on the street, officials held him in high esteem.
A woman’s attempt to accuse her of immoral conduct led to her being publicly whipped after being discovered guilty of defamation. It turns out that Thomas Weir’s reputation is untouchable, of anyone, that is, of himself.
He was 70 when he confessed to witchcraft and became seriously ill. He claimed not only to have committed adultery with a wide variety of women, as well as cows and mares, but he had also had an incestuous relationship with his sister, Grizel, at most all this, he said, motivated through his cult of the devil.
Of course, other people were reluctant to believe him, and Lord Provost at the time, Lord Abbotshall, even called doctors to assess his intellectual health. Weir, however, insisted that she needed to relieve her culprit and told her doctors she was looking to be punished by law. In the charge, her sister also came forward to corroborate the story and upload some non-public details.
His brother, he said, had Satan’s mark on his body, and they had been visited through the same fallen angel. A burning car had taken them out of the city to Musselburgh and Dalkeith, where they won prophecies and gifts. The cane that Weir used, he said, had been given to him through satan himself and the source of his powers.
On the other hand, it won “a normal amount of lead,” just in case you’re wondering where the hell it is when it comes to gender equality.
Unlike most other people, basically women, accused of witchcraft, the Weir were not tortured, but gave their testimonies freely. enough to convince other people that they were telling the truth.
Weir accused of incest, adultery and bestiality, and Grizel of witchcraft and witchcraft. The two brothers died without repentance, and Grizel even tried to undress before being hanged.
“It is certain that no history of witchcraft or necromancy. Array. . . it hasn’t made such a lasting impression on the public,” Walter Scott warned, he could have replaced his brain if he had noticed Edinburgh’s state of tourism today.
It’s a desirable story, especially if you take a fresher view that Satan and his demons just don’t exist.
Was it a non-uncommon ghost and a consensual date, then, or did Grizel abuse and brainwash him through his brother?Or it was the whole result of Weir’s eye of mind and she simply accepted because it gave her a higher profile than just being the single sister. and de facto housekeeper of an intense and perhaps mentally ill man?
Living with Weir can hardly be a picnic, whether it’s a secret Satanist or a true Presbyterian, Weir obsessed with his religion.
In any case, the brothers immersed themselves in Edinburgh’s supernatural folklore, although inevitably Weir is the most productive acquaintance of the two.
His staff are said to float in Grassmarket at night, and his space was the site of countless appearances until it was demolished.
Now, a Quaker meeting space is located on a component of the site, and ghosts have also been seen there. If this is true, Commander Thomas Weir has no life after the thrilling death promised to him through Old Nick: the only component that overlaps between old and new houses are the bathrooms of the meeting space.