The Buchanites: A Scottish Cult

Описание: Revelation 12 1
A great and wondrous sign appeared in heaven: a woman clothed with the sun, with the moon under her feet and a crown of twelve stars on her head. She was pregnant and cried out in pain as she was about to give birth.

The Buchanites were a Christian Sect led by the charismatic Elspeth Buchan in the late 18th and early 19th Century Scotland. Elspeth believed herself to be the Woman Clothed in Sun from Revelation, and persuaded some 60 or so folk in her time that this was true. These people joined her in a commune first located in Cample, Thornhill and then they went on to found the Galloway village of Crocketford.

This is a supercut of my 6 part series on the Buchanites.

Sources:

Relief United Presbyterian Church, Irvine: https://canmore.org.uk/site/208516/ir...

Glimpses of old Thornhill and district. 1997.
Through the lens ;05
https://dumgal.inforlib.uk/iguana/www...

Buchanhall, Canmore https://canmore.org.uk/site/65279/buc...

New House on Canmore: https://canmore.org.uk/site/283837/cr...

History of the Buchanites by Richard Hopkins
https://www.crocketford.org/our-history

The Buchanite Delusion by John Cameron : https://dumgal.inforlib.uk/iguana/www...

Buchanites on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buchanites

Many thanks to Galloway Then and Now for their filming assistance and Dumfries and Galloway Libraries for the books and support.

Intro/outro maps from Google Earth

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