A Collection Of Rare And Curious Tracts On Witchcraft And The Second Sight

Book: A Collection Of Rare And Curious Tracts On Witchcraft And The Second Sight by David Webster

This volume according to John Ferguson in his "Bibliographical Notes on the Witchcraft Literature of Scotland" (Edinburgh, 1896-97) "is one of the best of the reprints of Rare Witchcraft tracts." (See Lea, note p.1331).

Contains:

- An Original essay on witchcraft
- News from Scotland declaring the damnable life of Doctor Fian a notable sorcerer
- Account of the foregoing transactions extracted from Sir James Melvil"s memoires
- Extracts from King James"s Daemonology
- An Answer of a letter from a gentleman in fiefe
- An Account of a horrid and barbarous murder
- A Just reproof to the false reports and unjust calumnies, in the foregoing letters
- A Copy of the indictment of the witches at Borrowstouness
- The Confessions of Helen Taylor in Eyemouth
- The Disposition of Memie Halaburtoun
- The declaration of John Kincaid
- The Trial of William Coke and Alison Dick, for witchcraft
- Minutes and proceedings of the session of Torryburn, in Fifeshire, concerning witchcraft
- A Discourse concerning second sight.

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