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The sayde Doctor Fian was soone after araigned, condemned, and adjudged by the law to die, and then to bee burned according to the lawe of that lande, provided in that behalfe. Whereupon hee was put into a carte, and beeing first strangle d, hee was immediatly put into a great fire, being readie provided for that purpose, and there burned in the Castle hill of Edenbrough on a Saterdaie in the ende of Januarie lastpast, 1591.1
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Stuart Macdonald, ‘Torture and the Scottish witch-hunt: a re-examination’, Scottish Tradition, 27 (2002), 95–114
Part of the 1563 act had said that it was a crime to consult witches, but this was never implemented: Julian Goodare, ‘The Scottish witchcraft act’, Church History, 74 (2005), 39–67
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Paterson, L. (2013). Executing Scottish Witches. In: Goodare, J. (eds) Scottish Witches and Witch-Hunters. Palgrave Historical Studies in Witchcraft and Magic. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137355942_12
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