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Tibbie Tamson was a Scottish woman who is known to have once lived in the royal burgh of Selkirk in the Scottish Borders during the 18th century. Her grave is located on a hillside approximately 1.5 miles north of Selkirk at . While Tamson certainly did exist as she is recorded as dying in 1790, few other facts are actually known about her. Despite this however, each year as a matter of tradition and as way of an apology members of the Selkirk Common Riding Organisation place a wreath in remembrance of her. Several different explanations attempt to explain her death and also to explain why she was buried in such an isolated spot. The four most prevalent theories are: # She suffered execution for practising witchcraft thus was buried outside of the burgh as a further penalty. # She committed suicide and was denied Christian burial thus was buried outside of the burgh 〔Garside, P.D. (editor). In 〕 as a form of judicial retribution. # She was a victim of a plague thus she was separated from the burgh as a form of infection control. # She was the victim of the crime of homicide. ==Execution== It is theorised that Tibbie Tamson may have been found guilty of practising witchcraft a craft that was a criminal offence in Scotland during the 18th century and because of this she was sentenced to burn to death upon the stake. This theory further states that, owing to what was viewed as her unchristian and criminal activities, her body was buried outside the town as was the legal custom of that time for such activities. If this is true it would indeed explain why she was buried outside Selkirk and close to but not within the neighbouring settlement of Philiphaugh. Folklore in Selkirk seems to hold this position although it maybe a confusion with a certain Megan Lawson of the same century who is on record at the Scottish court as having been executed by strangulation and burnt in Selkirk's burgh square on conviction of the same crime. As of yet, there is no known record of a Tibbie Tamson from Selkirk to have ever been sentenced to death during the 18th century within that burgh itself or any other location in Scotland. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Tibbie Tamson」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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