g determined 'to
destroy and put him down,' being 'transformed in the lyknes
of ane pellack-quhaill, (the Devill changing her spirit,
quhilk fled in the same quhaill,') and the said Edward and
other four individuals being in a fishing-boat, coming from
the Sea, at the North-banks of Hildiswick, 'on ane fair
morning, did cum under the said boat, and overturnit her
with ease, and drowned and devoired thame in the sey, right
at the shore, when there wis na danger wtherwayis.' The
bodies of Halero and another of these hapless fishermen
having been found, Marion and Swene 'wir sent for, and
brought to see thame, and to lay thair hands on thame, ...
dayis after said death and away-casting, quhaire thair bluid
was evanished and desolved, from every natural cours or
caus, shine, and run; the said umquhill Edward _bled at the
collir-bain or craig-bane_, and the said ...,[80] _in the
hand and fingers, gushing out bluid thairat_, to the great
admiration of the beholders--and revelation of the judgement
of the Almytie! And by which lyk occasionis and miraculous
works of God, made manifest in Murders and the Murderers;
whereby, be many frequent occasiones brought to light, and
the Murderers, be the said proof brought to judgment,
conuict and condemned, not only in this Kingdom, also this
countrie, but lykwayis in maist forrin Christiane Kingdomis;
and be so manie frequent precedentis and practising of and
tuitching Murderis and Murdereris, notourlie known: So, the
forsaid Murder and Witchcraft of the saidis persons, with
the rest of their companions, through your said Husband's
deed, art, part, rad,[81] and counsall, is manifest and
cleir to all, not onlie through and by the foirsaid
precedentis of your malice, wicked and malishes[82]
practises, by Witchcraft, Confessionis, and Declarationis of
the said umquill Janet Fraser, Witch, revealed to her, as
said is, and quha wis desyrit by him to concur and assist
with you to the doing thereof; but lykways _be the
declaration and revelation of the justice and judgementis of
God, through the said issuing of bluid from the bodies_!'
&c.

A similar and very remarkable instance is related in the
following Triall: In the Dittay of CHRISTIAN WILSON, alias
_the Lanthorne_,[83] accused of Murder,