thereafter. All the charges being solemnly admitted
by the criminal, he was worried at a stake and burned.

Janet Barker, a servant, confessed to the magistrates and ministers of
Edinburgh that she had cured a young man who had been bewitched, by
giving him a waistcoat she had received from the devil; and by placing
under a door a black card which she had also obtained from Satan.

Margaret Hutchison was found guilty, in 1661, of being
habit-and-repute a witch--a supposed fact spoken to by the young laird
of Duddingston; and of putting a disease on her servant maid, and
thereafter removing it to a cat, soon after found dead near the
servant's bed.

Major Weir, who ended this life, or rather whose existence was ended,
in Edinburgh in the year 1670, was an enchanter who performed many
unaccountable actions in his day. According to the statement of his
sister, his whole magical power proceeded from a staff he possessed.
The major's sister had at the same time a distaff which often spun
yarn for her without any one handling it. At night she left the
distaff empty, and in the morning it was full.

In the year 1662 Agnes Williamson, residing at Samuelston,
Haddingtonshire, was indicted for witchcraft. She was charged, _inter
alia_, with taking the strength out of her neighbour's meal by her
enchantments; with raising a whirlwind, and thereby throwing her
neighbour Carfrae into the water, where he saw her and other witches
swimming about; with telling a neighbour that Carfrae would lose five
hundred merks, and, by her sorcery, setting fire to his malt kiln;
with renouncing her baptism, and taking the new name of "Nannie
Luckfoot." The jury brought in a verdict of guilty as to her being
habit-and-repute a witch, but they acquitted her of all the other
charges.

In the beginning of the seventeenth century Elizabeth Bathgate, spouse
of Alexander Pae, maltman in Eyemouth, was prosecuted at the instance
of the Lord Advocate for sorcery. The charges exhibited against her
were eighteen in number, from which the following are selected:--

"Causing the death of George Sprot's child by giving
it an enchanted egg. Throwing the said George Sprot
into extreme poverty by her sorcery. Making a horse
sweat to death through the same means, and killing an
ox by dancing on the rigging of the byre in which the
animal stood. Using conjurations and running
withershinns in the mill of Eyemouth. Stan