A
Collection
OF
RARE AND CURIOUS TRACTS
ON
WITCHCRAFT
AND THE
SECOND SIGHT;

WITH AN

Original Essay on Witchcraft.

Edinburgh:
PRINTED FOR D. WEBSTER, 35, WEST COLLEGE STREET.

1820.


Edinburgh:
Printed by Thomas Webster.


CONTENTS.

 Page

An Original Essay on Witchcraft,

5

News from Scotland,

13

To the Reader,

15

A True Discourse of the Damnable Life of Doctor Fian, and Sundry other Witches, lately taken in Scotland,

17

Another Account of the Foregoing Transactions, from Sir James Melvill's Memoirs,

36

Advertisement,

40

Extracts from King James's Daemonologie concerning Sorcery and Witchcraft,

42

Notice to the Reader,

68

Answer of a Letter from a Gentleman in Fife, to a Nobleman, containing an Account of the Barbarous and Illegal Treatment of the Witches in Pittenweem,

69

Another Letter concerning the Witches of Pittenweem,

73

A Just Reproof to the False Reports contained in the two Foregoing Letters,

79

[iv]A Copy of the Indictment and Precept for Summoning the Jury and Witnesses, with the Warrant for the Execution, of the Witches at Borrowstouness,

95

Trial of Isobel Elliot and others,

104

Confession of Helen Taylor,

107

Deposition of Manie Hali

...

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