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Isobel Gowdie

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had murdered too. She gave an account of the Devil sending her on an errand to Auldearn disguised as a hare. Her narrative went on to describe how while in that form she was chased by a pack of dogs; she escaped from them by running from house to house until eventually she had the opportunity to utter the chant to transform herself back into a human. She added that sometimes the dogs would be able to bite a witch when she took the form of a hare; although the dogs could not kill the
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mentions "Park's witches". Brodie was highly thought of by the minister and the lairds from the Auldearn area who had asked for his intervention on prior occasions. His relative, the Laird of Lethen, was a witness at Gowdie's interrogations and visited Brodie at the time; he was probably the person who took the trial application to Edinburgh. The pair prayed together petitioning against the Devil and witchcraft.
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local trial in mid-July, transported by cart to Gallowhill on the outskirts of Nairn where they would have been strangled and burned. Prior to 1678 most Scottish witches tried under a Privy Council commission were convicted and executed; Pitcairn shared the opinion that Gowdie and Breadhead were executed and most modern day academics, like historian
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always accurate when they fired the arrows but if the intended target, whether it was a woman, a man or an animal, was touched by the implement, she claimed they would die even if wearing a protective armour. Spells used to inflict illness and torment on Harry Forbes, the minister, were also described.
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There is no record of Gowdie being executed although this is not unusual as in 90 per cent of Scottish cases the outcome is unknown due to the local records no longer existing. Wilby hypothesises that once the commission was returned to Auldearn, Gowdie and Breadhead would have been found guilty at a
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who first reproduced Gowdie's testimonies in 1833, basically to confirm the three previous testimonies coupled with an attempt to elicit more information about the members of the coven to enable charges to be brought against them. Forty-one people were arrested as the result of Breadhead and Gowdie's
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after she encountered him and agreed to meet him at Auldearn kirk. Taking the information she provided previously about the elf arrows a step further, she revealed the names of those killed, expressing regret for the deaths she caused and supplied names of other coven members with details of who they
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that frightened her. Gowdie claimed to have made clay effigies of the Laird of Park's male children to cause them suffering or death and that she had assumed the form of a jackdaw and, with other members of the coven who had transformed into animals like cats and hares, visited the house of Alexander
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article, suggests it was because of her involvement in a conspiracy to torment the local minister, Harry Forbes, a zealous extremist who had a fear of witchcraft. Forbes was a witness at each of Gowdie's four interrogations. Accusations against Gowdie would have circulated for a lengthy period before
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prohibiting torture being used as a means of securing confessions from witches unless it was specifically authorised by the council. This led to a caution frequently being appended to commissions. In Gowdie and Breadhead's case, the Council advised they should be found guilty only if the confessions
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for a local trial to be held. Together with the confession of her accomplice, Janet Breadhead, some or all of Gowdie's confessions were sent with the request. According to Wilby, it is likely the confessions were received in Edinburgh around the middle of June 1662; the Register of the Privy Council
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Gowdie testified the Devil handmade elf arrows that were then enhanced by small roughly-spoken "elf-boys". The Devil allocated a number of arrows to each coven member with instructions they were to be fired in his name; no bows were supplied so the arrows were flicked by thumb. The witches were not
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with the individual chants used to turn into a cat, horse or various other animals supplied. Over the duration of all her confessions a total of twenty-seven benevolent or malevolent chants were given, more than in any other British witchcraft case; three were transcribed twice but with significant
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A little over two weeks later, on 3 May 1662, Gowdie's second confession was transcribed. She expanded on details about the coven by providing the nicknames of its members and as many of the spirits that waited on them as she could remember; her own servant spirit, dressed in black, was called the
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The Brodie family were prominent landowners around Loch Loy and Auldearn; Lord Brodie had been a commissioner to the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland, presided over witchcraft trials and left diaries covering the period 1652–1680 that detail several aspects of witches and justice at the
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aspects contained in the fairy elements. Despite the Privy Council's April 1662 proclamation, torture was often still employed and Levack speculates some form of it may have been applied to Gowdie; she may have become unbalanced by the imprisonment and lengthy inquisitions. While kept in solitary
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Levack describes Gowdie's initial statement as "one of the most remarkable documents in the history of witchcraft" with academic Julian Goodare referring to her as "one of the most famous of all Scottish witches" whose "extraordinary confessions" include "some of the most remarkable on record".
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as a recurrent crime during civil unrest and in the mid-16th century; Gowdie described her first carnal experience with the Devil as being in 1647 when soldiers may still have been in the area and Wilby postulates the lurid sexual details may be Gowdie's "fantasy-response to the trauma of rape."
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was likely to have been involved in approving the commission; he was in Edinburgh at the time and he noted in his diary that he had been "excisd in ordouring the depositions of witches". The entry in his diary the following day describes a meeting with Colville when they discussed witches and he
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Gowdie's second testimony has a note on the back dated 10 July 1662 indicating the document had been appraised and the justice department found it germane; a further instruction was added to "Tak ceare of this peaper". On the same document the justice depute, Alexander Colville, added a signed
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and where they danced. She explained that brooms were laid beside her husband in his bed so he would not notice she was absent. The coven ate and drank the best of food at houses they reached by flying through the air on magical horses and entered via the windows. They were entertained by the
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The confessions are a blend of fairy and demonic beliefs without parallel in any other witchcraft case. They are more detailed than most and are inconsistent with much of the folklore and records from the witchtrials. It is unclear whether Gowdie's confessions are the result of
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Janet Breadhead was detained at Inshoch Castle and confessed to witchcraft the day after being named in Gowdie's first confession. Various spellings are used for her name: in Gowdie's confession, it is spelled Breadhead whereas her own confession gives her name as
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with the Devil who she described as a very cold "meikle, blak, roch man". He had forked and cloven feet that were sometimes covered with shoes or boots. Details were given of taking a child's body from a grave and spoiling crops together with information about
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during 1662. Scant information is available about her age or life and, although she was probably executed in line with the usual practice, it is uncertain whether this was the case or if she was allowed to return to the obscurity of her former life as a
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that "This is the most remarkable witchcraft case on record ... referred to, in more or less detail, in every work relating to witchcraft in Scotland." According to Wilby, the confessions still remain at the forefront of academics debating witchcraft.
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region as she alluded to locations in the area. Likewise no detail is available concerning her age; at the time of her trial in 1662 she may have been aged anywhere from fifteen – although this is unlikely as she claimed to have participated in
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opined "Whatever satisfaction the return of King Charles the Second might afford to the younger females in his dominions, it certainly brought nothing, save torture and destruction, to the unfortunate old women, or witches of Scotland." According to
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Modern day academics characterise Gowdie, who was illiterate and of a low social status, as a talented narrator with a creative imagination. It is unclear why she came forward or was initially arrested but she may have suffered from
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are chronicled. Continuing on from the tale in her first testimony about the methods undertaken to kill any male children of the Laird of Park, the verse the Devil had taught them to chant while burning the effigies was relayed.
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On 15 May 1662 Gowdie was brought before her interrogators for a third time. Like her first and second confessions, and in common with many other Scottish witchcraft testimonies, the transcript begins by detailing her
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Descriptions of dining with the Devil and his beating of coven members and their responses to it are recounted. Salacious details concerning sexual relations with the Devil together with broad characteristics of his
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and landowners determined to seek convictions. Scotland had been subjected to nearly a century of vigorous oppression although areas in the north of the country had not felt the full brunt of
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Gowdie made four confessions over a period of six weeks; the first is dated 13 April 1662 at Auldearn. It is uncertain why she came forward; the historian John Callow, who authored her
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Records provide no information on Gowdie before her marriage to John Gilbert, who had no involvement in the witchcraft case. Wilby speculates that she would have been brought up in the
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fifteen years before her confession – to well into her thirties or fifties but she was certainly of child-bearing age despite there being no records of her having any children.
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Miller, Joyce (2008), "Men in Black: Appearances of the Devil in Early Modern Scottish Witchcraft Discourse", in Goodare, Julian; Martin, Lauren; Miller, Joyce (eds.),
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and first published in 1833, historians have described the material as remarkable or extraordinary and scholars continue to debate the topic in the 21st century.
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and king. Lurid information concerning carnal dealings with the Devil were also provided. A combination of demonic and fairy beliefs, the narratives were used by
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Rowan Tree and Red Thread: A Scottish Witchcraft Miscellany of Tales, Legends and Ballads; Together with a Description of the Witches' Rites and ceremonies
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Cumings. Some parts of her testimony, like her description of the king and queen of fairies, has been cut short when the notaries have just noted
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on her shoulder then sucked blood from it. Other meetings took place at several locations, for instance Nairn and Inshoch. She touched on having
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Normand, Lawrence (May 2012), "Emma Wilby, The Visions of Isobel Gowdie: Magic, Witchcraft and Dark Shamanism in Seventeenth-Century Scotland",
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Wilby, Emma (2013), "'We mey shoot them dead at our pleasur': Isobel Gowdie, Elf Arrows and Dark Shamanism", in Goodare, Julian (ed.),
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Booth, Roy (2008), "Standing Within The Prospect Of Belief Macbeth, King James, And Witchcraft", in Newton, John; Bath, Jo (eds.),
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at Auldearn at night. Naming several others who attended including Janet Breadhead and Margret Brodie, she said she renounced her
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Goodare, Julian (2008), "Scottish Witchcraft in its European Context", in Goodare, Julian; Martin, Lauren; Miller, Joyce (eds.),
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was larger than it is now and was surrounded by woodland, hills and sand dunes. Gowdie's husband was a farm labourer, possibly a
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for witchcraft trials and the deaths of his father, uncle and grandfather were publicly credited as being caused by witchcraft.
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The four confessions she made over a period of six weeks include details of charms and rhymes, claims she was a member of a
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Macdonald, Stuart (2017), "Counting witches: Illuminating and distorting the shape of witchcraft accusations in Scotland",
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were structured this way throughout Europe although her work was later discredited. Wilby opines there may have been dark
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MacCulloch, John Arnott (1921), "The Mingling of Fairy and Witch Beliefs in Sixteenth and Seventeenth Century Scotland",
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The panel of interrogators felt there was ample evidence to secure a conviction against Gowdie so they applied to the
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Gowdie and her husband lived in the area around Loch Loy, about two miles north of Auldearn. In the 17th century, the
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Dudley, Margaret; Goodare, Julian (2013), "Sleep Paralysis and Scottish Witchcraft", in Goodare, Julian (ed.),
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saw the Scottish courts trying many cases of witchcraft and witch hunts began in about 1550. The parliament of
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Adverse weather conditions caused a sustained period of poor harvests from 1649 until 1653. The execution of
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has set a selection of Gowdie's transformation chants to music in the song 'Hare Spell' from her 2020 album
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These modern day descriptions mirror those of Pitcairn in 1833 and George F. Black in 1937 who wrote in the
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Her surname is sometimes spelled Gaudie or Goudie; women in Scotland did not assume their husband's name.
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confinement, she was probably prevented from sleeping and mistreated. Scholars, such as Callow and
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The Visions of Isobel Gowdie: Magic, Witchcraft and Dark Shamanism in Seventeenth-Century Scotland
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Levack, Brian P. (2002), "Decline and end of Scottish witch-hunting", in Goodare, Julian (ed.),
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Isobel Gowdie Mural on Auldearn village green, an interpretation of the story of her accusation.
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have been remembered in a number of later works of culture. She appears as a character in the
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of Nairn, Sir Hew Campbell of Calder , and others to arrange local trials for both women.
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had been volunteered without torture, that they were sane and without a wish to die.
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Gowdie is commemorated outside academia by songs, books, plays and radio broadcasts.
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The fourth and final confession, dated 27 May 1662, is, according to the historian
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Gowdie is one of only a handful of witches who have an entry in their own right.
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Goodare, Julian (2013a), "Witchcraft in Scotland", in Levack, Brian P. (ed.),
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The Oxford Handbook of Witchcraft in Early Modern Europe and Colonial America
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Scottish woman who confessed to witchcraft at Auldearn near Nairn during 1662
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several aspects of witchcraft included in Gowdie's confessions are seen in
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Witchcraft and Folk Belief in the Age of Enlightenment Scotland, 1670–1740
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in Aberdeenshire, was convicted in early 1598; Peirson's case was at
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song titled 'Isobel Goudie' was one of many songs commemorating her.
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and rejected all traditional superstitions. He had been involved in
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in Auldearn, throughout the six-week time span of her confessions.
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so a strong belief in fairy traditions and folklore persisted. The
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statement beside the witness signatures endorsing the commission.
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An Orkney anthology: the selected works of Ernest Walker Marwick
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Goodare, Julian (2001), "Witch-hunts", in Lynch, Michael (ed.),
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Henderson and Cowan suggest Gowdie may have been alluding to a
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Wilby characterises Gowdie as a survivor of conflicts like the
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The Triumph of the Moon: A History of Modern Pagan Witchcraft
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the monarch of Scotland in 1660; most historians connect the
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Marwick, Ernest Walker (1991), Robertson, John D. M. (ed.),
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as the basis for her now mostly discredited theories about
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Troublesome Things: A History of Fairies and Fairy Stories
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in 2010 he styled the composition as his requiem for her.
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is a work for symphony orchestra by the Scottish composer
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features Gowdie's alleged chant in their song Isobel.
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In 2023 there was an exhibition of thirteen figures,
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Her first confession described an encounter with the
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(2008), 65:at the end of the era of 3619:Witch trials in Scotland 3548:Witches' Well, Edinburgh 2613:Winsham, Willow (2016), 2286:Goodare, Julian (2013), 438:Commission of Justiciary 3078:Islandmagee witch trial 2727:Cunning folk in Britain 2519:Purkiss, Diane (2000), 2358:Hutton, Ronald (1999), 2078:(subscription required) 1902:, pp. 154, 156–157 642:Cunning folk in Britain 436:in Edinburgh seeking a 341:I shall go into a hare, 280:, most probably in the 3032:1645, 1662, 1655, 1694 2599:, Palgrave Macmillan, 2496:, Palgrave Macmillan, 2468:10.3366/jshs.2017.0200 2326:, Palgrave MacMillan, 2290:, Palgrave Macmillan, 2272:, Palgrave Macmillan, 2236:, Palgrave Macmillan, 2214:Cullen, Karen (2010), 1938:10.3366/jshs.2012.0040 1074:10.1093/ref:odnb/67741 527: 474:Modern interpretations 387:transform into animals 376: 299:and the Devil put his 76:in the service of the 34: 2978:Aberdeen witch trials 2067:"A Blondie bewitched" 525: 161:European witch trials 117:as a requiem for her. 24: 3048:Bideford witch trial 2817:Ordo Templi Orientis 2722:Anglo-Saxon paganism 2577:Wilby, Emma (2010), 571:, by Nancy Kilgore, 553:The Devil's Mistress 317:, also known as the 315:Queen of the Fairies 278:solitary confinement 253:developing countries 196:extensive witch hunt 131:Mary, Queen of Scots 3511:Witchcraft Act 1735 3383:Neopagan witchcraft 3176:Issobell Fergussone 550:biographical novels 400:pact with the Devil 198:started that year. 127:early modern period 3364:Christian Caldwell 3241:Euphame MacCalzean 3141:Katherine Campbell 3068:Pittenweem witches 3018:Witches of Belvoir 3008:Samlesbury witches 2958:Witches of Warboys 2898:Austin Osman Spare 2888:Madeline Montalban 1994:, pp. 209–210 1611:, pp. 610–611 1570:, pp. 611–612 924:, pp. 164–165 739:and was a staunch 557:J. 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Brodie-Innes 528: 517:Battle of Auldearn 305:sexual intercourse 259:and tasks such as 139:capital punishment 35: 3609:People from Nairn 3581: 3580: 3577: 3576: 3527: 3526: 3493: 3492: 3402:Alexandrian Wicca 3377: 3376: 3355:Witch hunters and 3336:Major Thomas Weir 2911: 2910: 2771: 2770: 2763:George Pickingill 2643:, Oliver and Boyd 2624:978-1-4738-5004-0 2617:, Pen and Sword, 2606:978-1-137-35594-2 2588:978-1-84519-179-5 2570:978-3-03911-868-7 2552:978-0-19-924257-3 2530:978-0-14-028172-9 2503:978-0-230-50788-3 2485:978-0-7073-0574-5 2427:978-1-317-50356-9 2409:978-0-415-39943-2 2391:978-0-7190-6024-3 2333:978-1-137-31324-9 2315:978-0-19-957816-0 2297:978-1-137-35594-2 2279:978-0-230-50788-3 2243:978-1-137-35594-2 2225:978-0-7486-4184-0 2207:978-9-0041-6528-1 2172:Tales of One City 2122:on 29 August 2020 1878:, pp. 45, 58 1788:, pp. 63, 65 1750:Sutherland (2009) 1740:, pp. 71, 74 1738:Sutherland (2009) 1714:Sutherland (2009) 1172:MacCulloch (1921) 1079:(Subscription or 443:Sheriff principal 234:sexual activities 3626: 3538: 3504: 3485:Cecil Williamson 3412:Cochrane's Craft 3407:Gardnerian Wicca 3388: 3306:Annaple Thomsone 3296:Bessie Stevenson 3211:Gwen ferch Ellis 3156:Margaret Duchill 3121:Margaret Barclay 2938: 2853:Aleister Crowley 2843:Peter J. 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Archived from 2112:"Go into a Hare" 2107: 2101: 2100: 2099: 2097: 2086: 2080: 2079: 2076: 2072:The Sunday Times 2062: 2056: 2050: 2044: 2043: 2042: 2040: 2025: 2019: 2013: 2007: 2001: 1995: 1989: 1983: 1977: 1968: 1962: 1956: 1950: 1941: 1940: 1921: 1915: 1909: 1903: 1897: 1891: 1885: 1879: 1873: 1867: 1861: 1855: 1849: 1840: 1834: 1828: 1822: 1813: 1810:Macdonald (2017) 1807: 1801: 1795: 1789: 1783: 1777: 1771: 1765: 1759: 1753: 1747: 1741: 1735: 1729: 1723: 1717: 1716:, pp. 74–75 1711: 1705: 1699: 1678: 1677:, pp. 32–33 1672: 1666: 1660: 1651: 1645: 1639: 1633: 1624: 1618: 1612: 1606: 1600: 1594: 1588: 1582: 1571: 1565: 1559: 1553: 1547: 1541: 1535: 1529: 1520: 1514: 1508: 1502: 1496: 1490: 1484: 1478: 1472: 1466: 1460: 1454: 1448: 1442: 1429: 1423: 1417: 1411: 1405: 1399: 1393: 1387: 1381: 1375: 1369: 1363: 1357: 1351: 1342: 1336: 1330: 1324: 1305: 1299: 1284: 1278: 1269: 1263: 1257: 1251: 1236: 1235: 1234: 1232: 1221:"Dr John Callow" 1217: 1211: 1205: 1199: 1196:Henderson (2016) 1193: 1187: 1186:, pp. 35–36 1181: 1175: 1169: 1163: 1157: 1148: 1142: 1136: 1130: 1124: 1118: 1109: 1103: 1097: 1091: 1085: 1084: 1076: 1055: 1034: 1028: 1019: 1013: 1004: 998: 985: 979: 973: 972:, pp. 81–82 967: 961: 955: 949: 943: 937: 931: 925: 919: 913: 907: 898: 897:, pp. 30–31 892: 886: 880: 874: 868: 862: 856: 850: 844: 838: 832: 826: 820: 814: 808: 802: 796: 780: 769: 763: 760: 754: 750: 744: 733: 727: 716: 710: 700: 694: 691: 685: 681: 675: 672: 666: 663: 581:Graham Masterton 380: 319:Queen of Elphame 155:in 1590 and the 92:and witchcraft. 33:'s 1592 drawing. 3634: 3633: 3629: 3628: 3627: 3625: 3624: 3623: 3584: 3583: 3582: 3573: 3557: 3533: 3523: 3508: 3499: 3489: 3480:Doreen Valiente 3465:Frederic Lamond 3440:Robert Cochrane 3435:Charles Cardell 3422: 3416: 3373: 3356: 3350: 3326:Beatrix Watsone 3221:Grissel Jaffray 3136:Margaret Burges 3126:Magdalene Blair 3111:Allison Balfour 3106:Margaret Aitken 3093: 3087: 3058:Paisley witches 2948:Windsor Witches 2936: 2918: 2907: 2848:Andrew Chumbley 2831: 2827:Typhonian Order 2767: 2741: 2698: 2688: 2647: 2638: 2635: 2633:Further reading 2630: 2625: 2612: 2607: 2594: 2589: 2576: 2571: 2558: 2553: 2536: 2531: 2518: 2509: 2504: 2491: 2486: 2473: 2453: 2433: 2428: 2415: 2410: 2397: 2392: 2379: 2374: 2357: 2352: 2339: 2334: 2321: 2316: 2303: 2298: 2285: 2280: 2267: 2262: 2249: 2244: 2231: 2226: 2213: 2208: 2195: 2191: 2186: 2176: 2174: 2165: 2164: 2160: 2150: 2148: 2140: 2139: 2135: 2125: 2123: 2109: 2108: 2104: 2095: 2093: 2088: 2087: 2083: 2077: 2064: 2063: 2059: 2051: 2047: 2038: 2036: 2027: 2026: 2022: 2014: 2010: 2002: 1998: 1990: 1986: 1978: 1971: 1963: 1959: 1951: 1944: 1923: 1922: 1918: 1912:Goodare (2013a) 1910: 1906: 1898: 1894: 1886: 1882: 1874: 1870: 1862: 1858: 1850: 1843: 1835: 1831: 1823: 1816: 1808: 1804: 1796: 1792: 1784: 1780: 1772: 1768: 1760: 1756: 1748: 1744: 1736: 1732: 1724: 1720: 1712: 1708: 1700: 1681: 1673: 1669: 1661: 1654: 1646: 1642: 1636:Pitcairn (1833) 1634: 1627: 1621:Pitcairn (1833) 1619: 1615: 1609:Pitcairn (1833) 1607: 1603: 1597:Pitcairn (1833) 1595: 1591: 1585:Pitcairn (1833) 1583: 1574: 1568:Pitcairn (1833) 1566: 1562: 1554: 1550: 1542: 1538: 1532:Pitcairn (1833) 1530: 1523: 1517:Pitcairn (1833) 1515: 1511: 1503: 1499: 1491: 1487: 1479: 1475: 1469:Pitcairn (1833) 1467: 1463: 1457:Pitcairn (1833) 1455: 1451: 1445:Pitcairn (1833) 1443: 1432: 1424: 1420: 1412: 1408: 1400: 1396: 1388: 1384: 1378:Pitcairn (1833) 1376: 1372: 1364: 1360: 1354:Pitcairn (1833) 1352: 1345: 1339:Pitcairn (1833) 1337: 1333: 1327:Pitcairn (1833) 1325: 1308: 1300: 1287: 1279: 1272: 1264: 1260: 1252: 1239: 1230: 1228: 1219: 1218: 1214: 1206: 1202: 1194: 1190: 1182: 1178: 1170: 1166: 1158: 1151: 1143: 1139: 1131: 1127: 1119: 1112: 1104: 1100: 1092: 1088: 1078: 1057: 1056: 1037: 1029: 1022: 1014: 1007: 999: 988: 980: 976: 968: 964: 956: 952: 944: 940: 932: 928: 920: 916: 908: 901: 893: 889: 881: 877: 869: 865: 857: 853: 845: 841: 833: 829: 821: 817: 809: 805: 797: 793: 789: 784: 783: 779:, Fife in 1588. 770: 766: 761: 757: 751: 747: 734: 730: 717: 713: 701: 697: 692: 688: 682: 678: 673: 669: 664: 660: 650: 638: 593:James MacMillan 544:Gowdie and her 542: 492:Margaret Murray 476: 468:Brian P. 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Index

Black and white drawing
Emma Wilby
Peter Binsfeld
witchcraft
Auldearn
Nairn
cottar
torture
folklore
witch-hunts
coven
Devil
fairy queen
Margaret Murray
cults
ergotism
Robert Pitcairn
The Confession of Isobel Gowdie
James MacMillan
early modern period
Mary, Queen of Scots
Scottish Witchcraft Act in 1563
capital punishment
James
Daemonologie
North Berwick witch trials
Great Scottish Witch Hunt of 1597
European witch trials
ministers
Presbyterianism

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