Witches' Stone is an historic stone in the Scottish parish of
St Martins, Perth and Kinross
St Martins is a parish in Perth and Kinross, Scotland, just north of the Sidlaws range of hills, about north-northeast of Perth and northwest of Balbeggie. . It marks the location where
Macbeth
''Macbeth'' (, full title ''The Tragedie of Macbeth'') is a tragedy by William Shakespeare. It is thought to have been first performed in 1606. It dramatises the damaging physical and psychological effects of political ambition on those w ...
meets with two witches in
William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare ( 26 April 1564 – 23 April 1616) was an English playwright, poet and actor. He is widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist. He is often called England's nation ...
's tragedy.
[''Historic Scenes in Perthshire'', William Marshall, 1880 (p. 250)] It is first mentioned in text in 1806, when William Mackenzie, father of architect
William Macdonald Mackenzie, was the landowner.
The stone, which first appeared on
Ordnance Survey
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maps in 1866, stands around high and has a groove on its top, believed to be the result of a chain being used on it.
References
Stones
Perth and Kinross
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