The witch and the Maxton’s prophecy

The old home of Cultoquhey was demolished at the beginning of the XIX century. The new one was erected a hundred metres west of the old site, at the time of Anthony de Maxtone.

The house offers a beautiful southward view of the woods famed for being the stage for the death of Kate McNiven, the witch of Monzie, the last witch to be burned in Scotland. After her death, all her curses and predictions turned true, except for the one prophecy she left about the Maxtone family: "The day a Lord will be born with bright, lively eyes" a treasure will be found in Cultoquhey.

Like every respectable country house, Cultoquhey House has its own ghost, Molly, the governess of the young Maxtons, she met her demise by jumping in the stairwell, and manifests herself by moving around small objects in her favourite rooms 3 and 9.

More on the matter of ghosts, the people of Crieff nearby tell how sometimes at night it is still possible to hear the Roman vanguards trodding on the gravel.

History tells how the Roman legions, once arrived in Yorkshire, unable to figure a valid strategy to subdue the locals, had to stop their advance and built Adrian's Wall to keep them out. Thus Scotland, and the Scots, became renowned as the only ones who resisted and repelled the Romans.