application of silk-laces, south-running water, and grease. He
cured Sarah Borthwick by giving her south-running water from the
Schriff-breyis well, and casting salt and wheat about her.

Agnes Finnie, an indweller in the Potter-row, Edinburgh, was indicted
before a judge and a jury, on twenty articles of indictment, charging
her with witchcraft and sorcery. The libel set forth that she had been
guilty of laying on and taking off grievous sickness and diseases from
people. Under one count it was set forth that Finnie having had a
difference in June preceding with Christina Dickson, the accused, in
great wrath, uttered these words, "The devil ride about the town with
you and yours," and that shortly thereafter the said Christina's
daughter, in her return from Dalkeith to Edinburgh, fell and broke her
leg, which was caused, if the libel was truly drawn up, by the
devilish threats and sorceries of the said Agnes Finnie. By way of
aggravation of her crimes, it was stated she had confessed, at her
first examination before the South-west Kirk-session of Edinburgh,
that she had been commonly called a rank witch. She was convicted of
nearly all the charges brought against her, and suffered accordingly.

Alexander Hamilton, a warlock, was indicted for sorcery. He was
enticed away by the devil (so the complainant made it appear), in the
likeness of a black man, to Kingstoun Hills, East Lothian. In
consideration of the poor man renouncing his baptism, and promising to
obey his Satanic master, that grim contractor, on his part, engaged
that the accused should never want. The panel thereafter often called
Satan up by means of beating the ground three times with a fir-stick;
and he answered to the summons, sometimes like a corbie, and sometimes
like a cat or dog. By the devil's assistance, Hamilton injured those
who hurt him. In particular, he burned Provost Cockburn's mill, full
of corn, by pulling out three stalks of corn from the Provost's
stacks, and burning them at Gairnetoune Hill. From the indictment it
would appear the devil instructed him how to prepare an ointment from
the oil of spikenard and heart's grease, to cure diseases. A lady of
rank having offended him, he and two witches, in Salton Wood, raised
the devil, who appearing, gave him the "bottom of blue due," and bade
him lay it at the lady's door, and that the panel, having disposed of
the "bottom of blue due," as directed, the lady and her eldest
daughter died soon