"Out, damned spot! out" Traditional Cache
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your own!
LADY MACBETH
Yet here's a spot.
Doctor
Hark! she speaks: I will set down what comes from
her, to satisfy my remembrance the more strongly.
LADY MACBETH
Out, damned spot! out, I say!--One: two: why,
then, 'tis time to do't.--Hell is murky!--Fie, my
lord, fie! a soldier, and afeard? What need we
fear who knows it, when none can call our power to
account?--Yet who would have thought the old man
to have had so much blood in him.
Shakespeare's Macbeth has ensured that the name of Cawdor Castle is
almost universally known. Shakespeare tended not to let historical
detail get in the way of a good story, so the fact that Cawdor
Castle was built more than 300 years after Macbeth died has not
stopped the two forever being tied together in popular
imagination.
Less well known than Cawdor Castle is the small village of Cawdor,
which lies just to its west, across the steep-sided valley of the
Allt Dearg as it flows north to meet the River Nairn. This grew
largely as an estate village serving the castle, and much of it
comprises attractive stone cottages set in beautifully tended
gardens. The link with the castle is very obvious and direct: for
example one cottage bears an inscription over the front door: "21
April 1881. In memory of Sarah Mary, Countess of Cawdor."
The core of the village comprises two parallel lanes which come
together to form a loop at their east end where the line of the
Allt Dearg clearly divides village from castle. The more southerly
of the two is home to the village store and post office, and the
village school.
Between the two lanes and accessible from the more northerly
(nearest the B9091 which bypasses the village) is the Cawdor
Tavern. This is a traditional country pub housed in a building that
began life as the joiner's workshop for Cawdor Castle. The tavern
comes complete with bars and a restaurant, the former with a stock
of over 100 single malt whiskies. Next door is the village bowling
green.
At the west end of the village is Cawdor Parish Church. The first
church on this site appears to have been T-shaped and was built in
1619. This was incorporated into the cross-shaped church you see
today in 1829-30. The tower at the end of the south arm dates back
to 1619, though the belfry was probably added in the 1700s.
Internally the church has a pulpit set against its south wall and
galleries in the east, west and north arms. Much of the woodwork
dates back to a remodelling of the interior in 1904.
So come and find Lady Macbeth's spot.
Additional Hints
(Decrypt)
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