ding
bare-legged in her 'sark-vallie-coat,' at twelve
o'clock at night, conferring with the devil, who was
dressed in green clothes. Receiving a horse shoe from
the devil, and laying it in a secret part of the door,
that all her business in-doors might prosper. Casting
away and sinking George Huldie's ship with several
persons therein."

After a long trial, she was acquitted.

In the year 1629 Isabella Young, spouse of George Smith, portioner,
Eastbarns, was indicted for witchcraft and sorcery. There were many
acts of witchcraft and sorcery libelled against her, extending over a
period of many years. The Lords of Justiciary, before whom the trial
took place, found her guilty, and sentenced her to be worried at a
stake, and thereafter burned to ashes on the Castle Hill.

CHAPTER LXI.

The Demon of Jedburgh--Recruiting Sergeant--Captain
Douglas--An Apparition--Witch Shot in the form of a
Cat--Isobel Gowdie, an Auldearne Witch--Sabbath
Meetings with Satan--Poor Farmer
Breadley--Disinterring Unbaptised Children--Strange
Mixture--Singularly-constructed Plough--An equally
singular Team--Attempt to shoot a Minister--Bessie
Hay's Attempt to slay Harie Forbes--The
Borrowstounness Witches--Their Trial and Sentence--A
Pittenweem Witch--An Unearthly Horse--Merciful View of
a Witch's Case--A Perthshire Witch--Water of Ruthven
Well--A Changeling.

"The demon of Jedburgh" caused considerable annoyance in 1752. In that
year Captain Archibald Douglas was on recruiting service in the town
of Jedburgh. He had a sergeant under him, who asked permission to
change his quarters, on account of the house in which he resided being
haunted by a spirit of frightful form. The captain laughed at the
inferior officer, and ordered him to stay in the lodgings appointed
him.

At their next meeting the sergeant declared he had again seen an
apparition, which threatened his life. Moved by a dream and the
sergeant's statements, Captain Douglas resolved to inquire into the
matters that so disturbed the non-commissioned officer. The latter
told his superior that during the night a frightful spectre stood by
his bed-side, that it changed into the shape of a black cat, jumped
out at the window, and flew over the church steeple. Moreover, the
sergeant informed the captain that he had learned the landlady was a
witch, and the land