magistrates (who were present) and the
session to inflict no punishment on the said Thomas,
but to pass over his offences--a request that was
granted."

"On 10th May 1626 Bessie Wright was accused before the
presbytery of Perth of witchcraft, curing sick folks,
and frequenting the town of Perth after having been
banished from the burgh, and forbidden to exercise her
healing art. The moderator and brethren ordained that
she should be prohibited from performing any cure,
under pain of incarceration. It was likewise ordained
that the minister of Perth should make intimation on
the following Sabbath, that because the said Bessie
was under suspicion of witchcraft in curing diseased
persons by unlawful means, none would resort to her
for advice, under pain of the kirk's censures."

"Conform to citation, Robert Thomson, maltman,
compeared before the kirk-session on 30th December
1634, for causing a bairn of his to be taken to the
mill of Balhousie and put into the flappers thereof,
when the mill was going, to be charmed, which, it was
alleged, was a lesson of Satan. He answered that he
knew not of the circumstance until the child was
brought home." [The offence being considered an odious
one, the session resolved to take the advice of the
presbytery how to proceed, but we are not informed how
the matter terminated.]

Lilias Adie, a Fife witch, obtained power from Satan to assist her and
her friends, and to ruin her enemies. Like many other witches, she
regularly attended the witch Sabbaths. How long she might have
remained alive to strike terror into the hearts of the Torryburn
people, none can tell, had not their worthy pastor, the Rev. Allan
Logan, come to the rescue. Mr. Logan, report says, knew as well as any
living man how to detect a witch. When "fencing" the sacramental
table, he would look around him with his keen piercing eye, and call
aloud, "You witch, begone from the holy communion table." The
searching look and commanding voice made more than one woman retire
from among the worthy communicants. Mr. Logan was well supported by a
zealous kirk-session. This being so, Lilias Adie had little chance of
escape. She and other suspected witches were submitted to a series of
examinations and tests, which ended in her being burned within the
sea-mark on the Fife c