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Newes from Scotland - declaring the damnable life and death of Dr. John Fian is a pamphlet written by King James VI of Scotland that was printed in London in 1591, and reprinted as part of Daemonologie in 1597.[1] It describes the infamous North Berwick witch trials in Scotland. Dr John Fian, the supposed head of the coven, was tortured to obtain his confession most notably by the Boot, the Pilliwinks and by having his nails forcibly extracted. Also included in the pamphlet is an account of the alleged witches Agnes Sampson, known as the Wise wife of Keith, and Gelis Duncan.
Original copies are kept at Glasgow University, and in the Bodleian Library at Oxford.[2]
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Witch-hunts in Early Modern Europe In British Isles Witches of Warboys (1589–1593) · North Berwick witch trials (1590) · Pendle witches (1612) · Northamptonshire witch trials (1612) · Samlesbury witches (1612) · Witches of Belvoir (1619) · Bury St. Edmunds witch trials (1645, 1662, 1655 & 1694) · Bideford witch trial (1684) · Paisley witches (1696) · Islandmagee witch trial (1711)
In France Aix-en-Provence possessions (1611) · Loudun possessions (1634) · Louviers Possessions (1647) · Poison affair (1679)
In Germany Wiesensteig witch trial (1562–1563) · Trier witch trials (1581–1593) · Fulda witch trials (1603–1606) · Ellwangen witch trial (1611–1618) · Würzburg witch trial (1626–1631) · Bamberg witch trials (1626–1631) · Witch trial of Fuersteneck (1703)
In Scandinavia Køge Huskors (1608–1615) · Finspång witch trial (1617) · Vardø witch trials (1621) · Ramsele witch trial (1634) · Kirkjuból witch trial (1656) · Vardø Witch Trials (1662–1663) · Mora witch trial (1669) · Torsåker witch trials (1675)
Elsewhere
in EuropeValais witch trials (1428–1447) · Val Camonica witch trials (1505, 1518) · Fairy witch trials of Sicily · Benandanti · Basque witch trials (1609) · Roermond witch trial (1613) · Spa witch trial (1616) · Werewolf witch trials · Witch trial of Nogaredo (1646–1647) · Salzburg witch trials (1675–1681) · Northern Moravia witch trials (1678) · Liechtenstein witch trials (1679–1682) · Szeged witch trials (1728–1729) · Doruchowo witch trial (1783)
Texts Formicarius (1475) · Malleus Maleficarum (1486) · Witchcraft Act (England) (1562) · Newes from Scotland (1591) · Daemonolatreiae libri tres (1595) · Daemonologie (1597)
Other Salem witch trials (1692–1693)
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