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Margaret Dunholm

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A record of the expenses of her trial and execution was first printed in 1797. Two barrels of tar were used to build the fire. The execution was supervised by the hangman of
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with a bodkin was paid £6 for "brodding" Margaret Dunholm, with £4 expenses for wine and food. The bodkin used was also called a "brod".
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Her surname was also written as "Denholm, "Dinham" and "Dolmoune".
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who was accused of witchcraft and executed in 1649.
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Lauder
Great Scottish witch hunt of 1649–50
Stow
Tranent
pricked the accused
Haddington
'Brod', Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue
'Expence of Burning a Witch, 1649', Excerpta Historica (London, 1797), p. 40
Categories
1649 deaths
17th-century Scottish women
Executed Scottish women
Scottish people executed for witchcraft

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