Letters on Demonology and Witchcraft

Mackenzie's 'Criminal Law,' p. 45.

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Sinclair's 'Satan's Invisible World Discovered,' p. 43.

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Fountainhall's 'Decisions,' vol. i. p. 15. 

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Or Scottish wandering beggar.

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Sinclair's 'Satan's Invisible World Discovered,' p. 98.

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'Satan's Invisible World,' by Mr. George Sinclair. The author was Professor of Moral Philosophy in the University of Glasgow, and afterwards minister of Eastwood, in Renfrewshire.

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'Lucii Apuleii Metamorphoses,' lib. iii.

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The music of this witch tune is unhappily lost. But that of another, believed to have been popular on such occasions, is preserved.

'The silly bit chicken, gar cast her a pickle, 
 And she will grow mickle, 
         And she will do good.'

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I am obliged to the kindness of Mr. Pitcairn for this singular extract. The southern reader must be informed that the jurisdiction or regality of Broughton embraced Holyrood, Canongate, Leith, and other suburban parts of Edinburgh, and bore the same relation to that city as the borough of Southwark to London.

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A copy of the record of the trial, which took place in Ayrshire, was sent to me by a friend who withheld his name, so that I can only thank him in this general acknowledgment.

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This may remind the reader of Cazotte's 'Diable Amoureux.'

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See Fountainhall's 'Decisions,' vol. i. p. 15.

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Law's 'Memorialls,' edited by C.K. Sliarpe, Esq.: Prefatory Notice, p. 93.

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The precognition is the record of the preliminary evidence on which the public officers charged in Scotland with duties entrusted to a grand jury in England, incur the responsibility of sending an accused person to trial.

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