VII. Notice of William Mitchel, “The Tincklarian Doctor,” Edinburgh, 1672-1740 🧑⚕️😈
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VII. Notice of William Mitchel, “The Tincklarian Doctor,” Edinburgh, 1672-1740, pp.xcix-ciii. - Random Scottish History
[Satan’s Invisible World Contents] OF that singular “Edinburgh Character,” WILLIAM MITCHEL, ‘The Tincklarian Doctor, who cures Pans and old Lantrens,’ (as he chose to be called), a crazed “White-Irone-Smith,” whose residence was in the “Bow-Head of Edinburgh, at the south side of the Butter Weigh-ho..
VI. Additional Particulars as to the Witches of West-Calder, Linlithgow, 1720 😈🤥
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VI. Additional Particulars as to the Witches of West-Calder, Linlithgow, 1720, pp.xciv-xcix. - Random Scottish History
[Satan’s Invisible World Contents] PATRICK SANDELANDS, third son of James, seventh Lord Torphichen, a mischievous and unlucky boy, took it into his head, in the year 1720, under instruction, it is said, from a knavish governor, to play the possessed and bewitched person, laying the cause of his dist..
Britannia fooled again
Britannia, you're so strange
You've gone insane"
"You ain't shut them out
You just locked us in"
#Brexit #KeepTheHeid #EyesOnThePrize #NationInWaiting
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V. Notice of the Spirits that troubled the House of the Minister of Kinross 🧙♀️📍😈
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V. Notice of the Spirits that troubled the House of the Minister of Kinross, 1718, pp.xci-xciv. - Random Scottish History
[Satan’s Invisible World Contents] THE following Paper is here Reprinted, as a very suitable addition to this new Edition of “Satans Invisible World Discovered,” from the Original Broadside which I discovered lately in a folio volume of Miscellaneous Papers, consisting of Dying Speeches, Elegies, an..
A Just Reproof to the False Reports and Unjust Calumnies, in the Foregoing Letters 🤥+👩🦳=🧙♀️⚰️
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A Just Reproof to the False Reports and Unjust Calumnies, in the Foregoing Letters, pp.lxxvii-xci. - Random Scottish History
[Satan’s Invisible World Contents] ABOUT the month of March last year, one Beatrix Laing, a woman of very bad fame, who had formerly been under process for using charms, and refusing to be reconciled to her neighbours, was debarred from the Lord’s table, came to one Patrick Morton, a blacksmith, des..
An Account of an horrid and barbarous Murder, in a Letter from a Gentleman in Fife, to his Friend in Edinburgh 🧙🏻♀️🚪⚰️
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An Account of an horrid and barbarous Murder, in a Letter from a Gentleman in Fife, to his Friend in Edinburgh, pp.lxxiii-lxxvii. - Random Scottish History
[Satan’s Invisible World Contents] SIR, I Doubt not of your being exceedingly Surpriz’d with this short and Just Account I give you, of a most Barbarous Murder committed in Pittenweem the 30th. of January last. One Peter Morton a Blacksmith in that Town, after a long Sickness, pretended that Witches..
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What does Scotland have? Look at this and try to keep your mouth shut – Talking-up Scotland / Scottish media fact checking is like shooting fish in a barr..
Image - Russell Cheyne/Reuters From one of the many Anonymouses at Talking-up Scotland: What does Scotland have? What does Scotland have? We are only 8.3% of the UK’s population, 8.3 %! Remember!! 32% of the land area 61% of the sea area 90% of the fresh water. (There is more fresh water in loch Nes..
An Account of the horrid and Barbarous Murder, in a Letter from a Gentleman in Fife, to his Friend in Edinburgh 🤥🧑🦳💷
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An Account of the horrid and Barbarous Murder, in a Letter from a Gentleman in Fife, to his Friend in Edinburgh, pp.lxix-lxxii. - Random Scottish History
[Satan’s Invisible World Contents] AN ANSWER of a LETTER from a GENTLEMAN in Fife to a NOBLEMAN, containing a brief Account of the Barbarous and illegal Treatment, these poor Women accused of Witchcraft, met with from the Baillies of Pittenweem and others, with some few Observations thereon. To whic..
ANE NARRATIVE of the trouble of PATRICK MORTON. And the confession of some women thairanent in Pittenweem 🧙🤒⛓️🔐
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ANE NARRATIVE of the trouble of PATRICK MORTON. And the confession of some women thairanent in Pittenweem, pp.li-lxix. - Random Scottish History
[Satan’s Invisible World Contents] The following “Narrative” is printed from the Original MS. in the Library of the University, Edinburgh. It appears to have been formerly in the possession of W. B. D. D. Turnbull, Esq., Advocate, 1832:-1 ANE NARRATIVE of the trouble of PATRICK MORTON. And the confe..
IV. Additional Particulars as to the Witches of Pittenweem, Fifeshire, 1704 🧙♀️⛓️🔐
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IV. Additional Particulars as to the Witches of Pittenweem, Fifeshire, 1704, pp.xlviii-xci. - Random Scottish History
[Satan’s Invisible World Contents] EARLY in the year 1704 there was a remarkable outbreak of Diablerie - a frightful instance of popular bigotry - at the small seaport Burgh of Pittenweem, in the eastern part of Fife, which excited a considerable degree of interest, as it involved the clerical debat..
Doing a search only gives me "dilemma," even when searching
"dilaequium", -dilemma
which returns zero hits 🤔🤷♀️
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I cannot get my head around this morning's decision to end the cooperative pact between the 2 parties 😵💫🤯
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II. Relation of an Apparition, and actings of a Spirit which infested the house of Andrew Mackie in Rerrick 👻🔥
I. Additional Notices of Major Weir and his Sister, 1641-1670 🧙🏻♂️🔥🧙🏻♀️
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I. Additional Notices of Major Weir and his Sister, 1641-1670, pp.i-xix. - Random Scottish History
[Satan’s Invisible World Contents] HOMAS WEIR, one of the most celebrated Wizards of Scotland, was born near Lanark, in Clydesdale. Of his father, or grandfather, mention is made in the ‘Memoirs of the Somerville Family, written by James, eleventh Lord Somerville,’ (Edited, with Illustrative Notes, ..
III. Concerning the bewitching of a Child in Ireland 👧🏻 🤮
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III. Concerning the bewitching of a Child in Ireland, pp.261-262. - Random Scottish History
[Satan’s Invisible World Contents] AT Antrim, in Ireland, a girl of nineteen years of age, inferior to none in the place for beauty, education, and birth, innocently eat a leaf of sorrel, which she got from a witch, after she had given the begging witch bread and beer at the door: it was scarcely sw..
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Braw weather, braw atmosphere, & braw people everywhere ye looked. See if ye can spot yersel ☺️
🦄 🏴 💜
II. Concerning the Witches of Pittenweem 🧙👤🪡
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II. Concerning the Witches of Pittenweem, pp.257-260. - Random Scottish History
[Satan’s Invisible World Contents] PETER MORTON, smith at Pittenweem, being desired by one Beattie Laing to do some work for her, which he refused, excusing himself in respect he had been pre-engaged to serve a ship with nails, within a certain time, so that till he had finished that work, he could ..
I. Concerning some Witches in the Shire of Renfrew 🧙♀️🧙
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I. Concerning some Witches in the Shire of Renfrew, pp.255-257. - Random Scottish History
[Satan’s Invisible World Contents] IT was about the end of August 1696, Christian Shaw,* daughter to Shaw of Bargarran, in the shire of Renfrew, about eleven years of age, perceiving one of the maids of the house, named Katharine Campbell, to steal and drink some milk; she told her mother of it: Whe..
An Apparition of a deceased Wife to her husband, at Edinburgh 🫂👻
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An Apparition of a deceased Wife to her husband, at Edinburgh, pp.251-254. - Random Scottish History
[Satan’s Invisible World Contents] SIr, That which I narrated to you the other day, I have now sent it under my hand, as a thing very certain and sure. I knew a servant Maid that served a Gentlewoman in the Old Provosts Closs, as they call it, who was married to a Butcher called Iohn
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Battle of Culloden & its Aftereffects (Podcast) - Random Scottish History
I know there are folk still hark back to the days of Culloden as a time where Scottish spirit was strong & couldn't be daunted. That's true to a point but the battle itself was an unmitigated disaster. A badly planned, badly executed, & badly led, farce. For the post which accompan..
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Culloden - Random Scottish History
[Extra Articles Contents] The Battle of Culloden, or ‘45 Rebellion, was really part 2 of a civil war and was borne of sentiments that hadn’t been dampened any after the Rebellion of 1715. Pretty quickly after the Union with England was concluded the same lords who got cushy seats and not-so-anonymou..
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16th of April – Battle of Culloden - Random Scottish History
Eighteen martyrs of Saragossa, 304. St Turibius, Bishop of Astorga, about 420. St Fructuosus, Archbishop of Braga, 665. St Magnus, of Orkney, martyr, 1104. St Druon, recluse, patron of shepherds, 1186. St Joachim of Sienna, 1305. - Born. - Sir Hans Sloane, naturalist, 1660, Killileagh; John Law, spe..