Witchcraft -- England; Witchcraft -- Great Britain; Witchcraft -- Scotland
[2] Pitcairn's 'Scottish Criminal Trials.'
[3] Pitcairn.
[4] Pitcairn.
[5] Pitcairn.
[6] Pitcairn.
[7] An iron instrument so constructed, that by means of a hoop which
passed over the head, a piece of iron having four prongs or points, was
forcibly thrust into the mouth, two of these being directed to the tongue
and palate, the others pointing outwards to each cheek. This infernal
machine was secured by a padlock. At the back of the collar was fixed a
ring, by which to attach to a staple in the wall of her cell.--_Pitcairn's
'Scottish Criminal Trials.'_
[8] Fountainhall says that she was convict and burnt; but is this not a
mistake? Pitcairn gives the actual trial, and King James's angry letter
against the contumacious assisa.
[9] Pitcairn.
[10] Dr. Jamieson conjectures the word to signify "warm hose." After
encircling the leg with an iron framework, it was put into a moveable
furnace or chauffer, and during the progress of heating the iron, the
intended questions were successively put.--_Note in Pitcairn's 'Scottish
Criminal Trials.'_
[11] Pitcairn's 'Scottish Criminal Trials.'
[12] Chambers' 'Domestic Annals of Scotland.'
[13] 'Antiquarian Researches of Aberdeen, by Gavin Turriff: Spalding Club
Miscellany. Chambers' 'Domestic Annals,' to the end of the Aberdeen
trials.
[14] Apparently untranslateable.
[15] Patrick Anderson's MS. history of Scotland, quoted by Robert
Chambers, in his 'Domestic Annals of Scotland.'
[16] Pitcairn.
[17] Pitcairn and Chambers.
[18] Pitcairn.
[19] Pitcairn.
[20] Dalyell's 'Darker Superstitions of Scotland.'
[21] Scott's 'Demonology and Witchcraft.'
[22] Pitcairn.
[23] Pitcairn and Chambers.
[24] Star-grass, queries Pitcairn; but is it not rather
fox-tree--fox-glove?
[25] Chambers, Dalyell, Pitcairn.
[26] Dalyell, quoting the judiciary records of Orkney.
[27] Hibbert, quoting the Orkney Records.
[28] Pitcairn. Sharpe's Introduction to Law's 'Memorials.'
[29] Dalyell.
[30] Law's 'Memorials,' (Sharpe's Introduction,) and Dalyell.
[31] Chambers, Sinclair, Dalyell.
[32] Dalyell's 'Darker Superstitions.'
[33] Pitcairn. Law's 'Memorials.' Chambers.
[34] Dalyell.
[35] Chambers.
[36] Chambers.
[37] Dalyell.
[38] Chambers and Law; Sharpe's Introduction.
[39] Hibbert's 'Description of the Shetland Islands.'
[40] Dalyell. Evidently the same thing with a different reading:--_red_,
rode; _sool-soot_, stirrup; _sled_, slipped; _shinew_, sinew.
[41] Hibbert, &c.
[42] Sinclair's 'Invisible World Discovered.'
[43] Pitcairn.
[44] Sinclair.
[45] To the outer room.
[46] To the inner room.
[47] Chambers.
[48] Chambers.
[49] Pitcairn and Sinclair.
[50] Chambers' 'Domestic Annals.'
[51] Law--Sharp's Introduction.
[52] Dalyell.
[53] Chambers.
[54] Law's 'Memorials'--Sharp's Introductory Notice.
[55] Pitcairn.
[56] On life: alive.
[57] Chambers. Sinclair. Various tracts.
[58] Chambers. Dickie. Tracts.
[59] Law's 'Memorials.'
[60] Chambers.
[61] Law's 'Memorials.'
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