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mentions "Park's witches". Brodie was highly thought of by the minister and the lairds from the
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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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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
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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
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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
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for a local trial to be held. Together with the confession of her accomplice, Janet
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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
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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2195:
2015:
2003:
1991:
1979:
1964:
1836:
1785:
1773:
1725:
1701:
1674:
1543:
1492:
1480:
1413:
1365:
1301:
1280:
1265:
1253:
1183:
1159:
1144:
1132:
1120:
1105:
1093:
1030:
1015:
933:
921:
894:
882:
858:
798:
693:One of a series of mounds near Nairn.
2082:
1036:
606:The traditional English folk singer
208:Great Scottish Witch Hunt of 1661–62
2753:Dummy, the Witch of Sible Hedingham
2512:Ancient Criminal Trials in Scotland
726:fairy when describing the elf-boys.
349:And I shall go in the Devil's name,
251:could be compared with present-day
13:
2632:
2597:Scottish Witches and Witch-Hunters
2382:The Scottish Witch-hunt in Context
2288:Scottish Witches and Witch-Hunters
2234:Scottish Witches and Witch-Hunters
1227:from the original on 16 April 2017
533:Calendar of Witchcraft in Scotland
14:
3630:
2807:Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn
2109:
2090:"The Confession of Isobel Gowdie"
2029:"About our staff, Julian Goodare"
157:Great Scottish Witch Hunt of 1597
2883:Samuel Liddell MacGregor Mathers
2342:Scottish Fairy Belief: A History
2159:
2134:
2103:
2065:Lachman, Gary (20 August 2007),
2035:from the original on 7 July 2016
601:The Sensational Alex Harvey Band
222:
2384:, Manchester University Press,
2188:
1426:Stevenson & Davidson (2001)
811:Stevenson & Davidson (2001)
765:
756:
746:
729:
712:
696:
687:
677:
668:
588:The Confession of Isobel Gowdie
364:Hare, hare, God send thee care.
135:Scottish Witchcraft Act in 1563
110:The Confession of Isobel Gowdie
3604:People convicted of witchcraft
2218:, Edinburgh University Press,
2198:Witchcraft and the Act of 1604
659:
617:The American heavy metal band
368:I am in a hare's likeness now,
358:To change back, she would say:
266:
177:Castle of Park (Aberdeenshire)
1:
2998:Northamptonshire witch trials
2802:Hermetic Brotherhood of Luxor
2448:10.1080/0015587X.1921.9719207
647:
120:
3594:17th-century Scottish people
3507:Last person imprisoned under
3028:Bury St Edmunds witch trials
1876:Henderson & Cowan (2001)
1556:Henderson & Cowan (2001)
1505:Henderson & Cowan (2001)
1402:Henderson & Cowan (2001)
1081:UK public library membership
910:Henderson & Cowan (2001)
786:
540:In literature, art and music
427:
7:
3599:17th-century Scottish women
2717:Anglo-Saxon metrical charms
2545:, Oxford University Press,
2478:, Scottish Academic Press,
2366:, Oxford University Press,
2322:Henderson, Lizanne (2016),
2308:, Oxford University Press,
2254:, Oxford University Press,
2031:, University of Edinburgh,
1888:Dudley & Goodare (2013)
1852:Dudley & Goodare (2013)
635:
630:Edinburgh's Central Library
626:Witches in Words, not Deeds
353:Ay while I come home again.
25:According to the historian
10:
3635:
3276:George and Lachlan Rattray
3146:Janet Douglas, Lady Glamis
2968:North Berwick witch trials
2822:Society of the Inner Light
555:by novelist and occultist
212:Charles Kirkpatrick Sharpe
194:took place in 1649 and an
153:North Berwick witch trials
80:and that she met with the
3561:
3540:
3531:
3497:
3420:
3390:
3381:
3354:
3091:
2940:
2915:
2835:
2784:
2775:
2745:
2709:
2702:
2639:Davidson, Thomas (1949),
2581:, Sussex Academic Press,
2559:Sutherland, Alex (2009),
2510:Pitcairn, Robert (1833),
2416:Levack, Brian P. (2015),
2398:Levack, Brian P. (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:
333:
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. W. 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:
3537:
3504:
3503:
3485:Cecil Williamson
3412:Cochrane's Craft
3407:Gardnerian Wicca
3388:
3387:
3306:Annaple Thomsone
3296:Bessie Stevenson
3211:Gwen ferch Ellis
3156:Margaret Duchill
3121:Margaret Barclay
2938:
2937:
2853:Aleister Crowley
2843:Peter J. Carroll
2782:
2781:
2777:Ceremonial magic
2707:
2706:
2684:
2677:
2670:
2661:
2660:
2656:
2649:Valiente, Doreen
2644:
2627:
2609:
2591:
2573:
2555:
2544:
2533:
2515:
2506:
2488:
2470:
2450:
2430:
2412:
2394:
2376:
2365:
2354:
2336:
2318:
2300:
2282:
2264:
2246:
2228:
2210:
2183:
2182:
2180:
2178:
2163:
2157:
2156:
2154:
2152:
2138:
2132:
2131:
2129:
2127:
2118:. 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:
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1940:
1921:
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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:
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1600:
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1535:
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1454:
1448:
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1429:
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1417:
1411:
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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:
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844:
838:
832:
826:
820:
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769:
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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:
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1636:Pitcairn (1833)
1634:
1627:
1621:Pitcairn (1833)
1619:
1615:
1609:Pitcairn (1833)
1607:
1603:
1597:Pitcairn (1833)
1595:
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1585:Pitcairn (1833)
1583:
1574:
1568:Pitcairn (1833)
1566:
1562:
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1550:
1542:
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1532:Pitcairn (1833)
1530:
1523:
1517:Pitcairn (1833)
1515:
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1499:
1491:
1487:
1479:
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1469:Pitcairn (1833)
1467:
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1457:Pitcairn (1833)
1455:
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1445:Pitcairn (1833)
1443:
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1378:Pitcairn (1833)
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1354:Pitcairn (1833)
1352:
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1339:Pitcairn (1833)
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1327:Pitcairn (1833)
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789:
784:
783:
779:, Fife in 1588.
770:
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688:
682:
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664:
660:
650:
638:
593:James MacMillan
544:Gowdie and her
542:
492:Margaret Murray
476:
468:Brian P. Levack
430:
421:Robert Pitcairn
382:
379:Pitcairn, 1833.
378:
375:
370:
366:
359:
356:
351:
347:
343:
336:
269:
225:
169:Presbyterianism
123:
115:James MacMillan
102:Robert Pitcairn
86:Margaret Murray
17:
12:
11:
5:
3632:
3622:
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3495:
3494:
3491:
3490:
3488:
3487:
3482:
3477:
3472:
3467:
3462:
3460:Gerald Gardner
3457:
3452:
3450:Stewart Farrar
3447:
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3437:
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3426:
3424:
3418:
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3394:
3392:
3385:
3379:
3378:
3375:
3374:
3372:
3371:
3366:
3360:
3358:
3357:Witch-prickers
3352:
3351:
3349:
3348:
3343:
3338:
3333:
3328:
3323:
3318:
3316:Issobell Young
3313:
3308:
3303:
3298:
3293:
3291:Isobell Shyrie
3288:
3283:
3278:
3273:
3271:Alison Pearson
3268:
3263:
3258:
3256:Barbara Napier
3253:
3248:
3246:Elspeth McEwen
3243:
3238:
3236:Beatrix Leslie
3233:
3228:
3223:
3218:
3213:
3208:
3203:
3198:
3193:
3188:
3183:
3178:
3173:
3168:
3163:
3161:Geillis Duncan
3158:
3153:
3148:
3143:
3138:
3133:
3128:
3123:
3118:
3113:
3108:
3103:
3097:
3095:
3089:
3088:
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3055:
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3035:
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3025:
3024:
3023:
3015:
3014:
3013:
3005:
3004:
3003:
2995:
2994:
2993:
2988:Pendle witches
2985:
2984:
2983:
2975:
2974:
2973:
2965:
2964:
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2955:
2954:
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2944:
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2837:
2833:
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2819:
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2804:
2799:
2797:Alpha et Omega
2794:
2788:
2786:
2779:
2773:
2772:
2769:
2768:
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2765:
2760:
2755:
2749:
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2743:
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2740:
2739:
2734:
2729:
2724:
2719:
2713:
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2700:
2699:
2687:
2686:
2679:
2672:
2664:
2658:
2657:
2645:
2634:
2631:
2629:
2628:
2623:
2610:
2605:
2592:
2587:
2574:
2569:
2563:, Peter Lang,
2556:
2551:
2534:
2529:
2516:
2507:
2502:
2489:
2484:
2471:
2451:
2442:(4): 227–244,
2431:
2426:
2413:
2408:
2395:
2390:
2377:
2372:
2355:
2350:
2337:
2332:
2319:
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2278:
2265:
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2229:
2224:
2211:
2206:
2192:
2190:
2187:
2185:
2184:
2158:
2133:
2102:
2081:
2057:
2045:
2020:
2008:
1996:
1984:
1969:
1957:
1942:
1916:
1904:
1892:
1880:
1868:
1864:Goodare (2008)
1856:
1841:
1829:
1814:
1802:
1798:Goodare (2013)
1790:
1778:
1766:
1754:
1742:
1730:
1718:
1706:
1679:
1667:
1663:Winsham (2016)
1652:
1648:Winsham (2016)
1640:
1625:
1613:
1601:
1589:
1572:
1560:
1548:
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3131:Janet Boyman
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3534:and museums
3266:Mary Pannal
3216:Janet Horne
3101:Lilias Adie
2927:In Scotland
2903:A. E. Waite
2523:, Penguin,
2177:24 November
2075:, p. 3
1728:, p. 8
1404:, p. 4
1368:, p. 3
1256:, p. 4
1147:, p. 9
1123:, p. 6
1003:, p. 7
825:, p. 1
771:Mann, from
597:BBC Radio 3
451:Lord Brodie
323:water bulls
267:Confessions
185:commissions
82:fairy queen
67:witch-hunts
3588:Categories
3500:witchcraft
3470:Sybil Leek
3251:Violet Mar
3226:Mary Hicks
2919:witchcraft
2893:Alan Moore
2878:James Lees
2703:Folk magic
2697:in Britain
2695:witchcraft
2373:0198207441
2151:28 October
1083:required.)
1062:. 1662)",
684:Breadheid.
648:References
217:Emma Wilby
200:Charles II
181:Covenanter
121:Background
42:witchcraft
27:Emma Wilby
3541:Monuments
3532:Monuments
3331:Jane Weir
3301:Anna Tait
3191:Maud Galt
3181:John Fian
2982:1596–1597
2962:1589–1593
2873:Phil Hine
2836:Magicians
2746:Magicians
2200:, BRILL,
2039:29 August
787:Citations
777:Boarhills
724:trow-like
705:: sighs;
612:Wrackline
608:Fay Hield
481:psychosis
428:Aftermath
413:genitalia
328:et cetera
165:ministers
3421:Neopagan
3391:Variants
2932:In Wales
2858:John Dee
2737:Nicnevin
2710:Variants
2651:(1975),
2436:Folklore
2033:archived
1231:16 April
1225:archived
709:: great.
636:See also
619:King 810
500:shamanic
485:ergotism
282:tolbooth
241:sea loch
229:Auldearn
204:declared
145:, wrote
98:ergotism
63:folklore
46:Auldearn
3562:Museums
3430:Artemis
3423:witches
3151:Meg Dow
3094:witches
3092:Accused
773:Rathven
720:brownie
707:meickle
297:baptism
261:milking
59:torture
3498:Modern
2941:Trials
2812:O∴A∴A∴
2732:Goetia
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561:Isobel
310:covens
257:chores
245:cottar
55:cottar
3398:Wicca
2691:Magic
2092:, BBC
753:time.
653:Notes
546:magic
496:cults
289:Devil
173:Laird
143:James
90:cults
78:Devil
74:coven
50:Nairn
48:near
3509:the
3445:Dafo
3082:1711
3072:1704
3062:1696
3052:1684
3042:1658
3022:1619
3012:1612
3002:1612
2992:1612
2972:1590
2952:1579
2792:A∴A∴
2693:and
2619:ISBN
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