Oct 6, 20212 min read

The Spooky Box

Updated: Nov 5, 2021

We are starting The Scot Box subscription re-launch with a bang!

Introducing 'The Spooky Box'.

A carboard subscription box with beautiful calligraphy reading 'The Scot Box' and two small Scottish Thistles sit on a mahogany mantle surrounded by Scottish Gifts from left to right; A blue and black book with the words ' Dark Encounters a collection of ghost stories' has a silhouetted graveyard on it's cover, it sits behind two small pumpkins, one ginger cream and one dark green. A silver celtic keyring can be seen hanging off the side of the subscription box, below it resting up against the box is a turnip pin attached to card. Behind the box is a lino print of a woman tied to a stake surrounded by smoke and flames. Scottish Serial Killer Stickers that are black, blue and white are in cellophane packaging resting up against the box. To the back right is another book mainly deep red with a silhouette of Stirling or Edinburgh castle and a noose, it's title reading 'Scottish Murders. All the gifts are surrounded by dried Scottish plants, Celtic wooden engravings and small pumpkins.

If you like crime and mystery then this box is for you! Packed with Ghost stories, murder, and magic.

A blue book with a black silhouetted graveyard stands behind two small decoration pumpkins. The book's title reads 'Dark Encounters. A collection of Ghost Stories. The Author's name William can just be seen peaking out the from behind of the larger pumpkin

The Spooky Box includes TWO books to take you deep into Scotland's dark past. Read about ghost stories based on Scottish history and folklore. Learn about the legend of Sawney Beane and his family of cave living cannibals, and murderers such as Burke and Hare, and the infamous Bible John.

Illustrator David Dunlop has popped some stickers in the box with a few of these notorious killers getting a taste of their own medicine.

This season also brings light to the 16th and 17th century Witch Trials that span across Scotland. Where burning people (most often women) at the stake was common practice. Women were accused of being witches due to anything from "irregular" birth marks to "speaking out of turn". It didn't take much to sentence someone to being burned alive. The legend of Maggie Wall, who was supposedly burned for being a "Witch", is well talked about here in Perthshire, Scotland, as her monument appeared around the 1800s with no explanation as to whom had erected it. To this date no one has been able to find any records of Maggie Wall, or her death, but it is believed possible to have happened. The last person to be legally executed by burning in the U.K. was Janet Horne of Dornoch, Scotland, in 1727.

An A5 lino print of a woman tied to a stake that has a cross above it and sits atop large stone rocks. Flames are rising from either sides of the rocks causing smoke to fill the background of the illustration. The woman's hair is mimicking the flames dances as they are whipped up by the fiery wind.

Illustrator Charlie Dear has placed in a copy of her Maggie Wall lino print to help us remember those women who tragically lost their lives and to prevent us from ever repeating this horrific history.

To balance the box though, Charlie has also included her Turnip Pin Badge, affectionately known as a tumshie in Scotland & Ireland, and a moot on the Isle of Man, carved turnips were the original Jack o Lanterns.

Needing a little more balance in the box? Don't worry, Mystix Moon Jewellery have popped in a beautiful Celtic antique silver and stainless steel 4 Seasons Triquetra keyring for protection.

A close up shot of a metal silver celtic knot keyring of four triquetra's representing the four seasons of the year.

The Spooky Scot Box will be available for 3 months on subscription purchase from the 6th of October 2021 at GMT 06:00pm.

The Scot Box is a quarterly Subscription Box that is shipped out 4 times a year (every 3 months). You can cancel your subscription and re-subscribe at any time.

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The Spooky Box

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