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Newes from Scotland, declaring the damnable life and death of Doctor Fian

a notable sorcerer, who was burned at Edenbrough in Ianuary last. 1591. Which doctor was regester to the diuell that sundry times preached at North Barrick Kirke, to a number of notorious witches. With the true examination of the saide doctor and witches, as they vttered them in the presence of the Scottish king. Discouering how they pretended to bewitch and drowne his Maiestie in the sea comming from Denmarke, with such other wonderfull matters as the like hath not been heard of at any time. Published according to the Scottish coppie.

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  • First published:
  • 16th century
  • Language: English

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Traditions: Witchcraft and folk magic

Subjects: Early works to 1800, Witchcraft, Scotland, fian, john, d. 1591

Provenance

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Included because retained bibliographic metadata links this work to Witchcraft and folk magic.

  • Witchcraft and folk magic

    Controlled discovery queries from openlibrary-historical matched “Witchcraft”. Retained metadata contains “witches” in the subtitle, “Witchcraft” in the subject metadata, and “witches” in the edition subtitle.

    • “Witchcraft”· via Open Library
    • “witches”· in subtitle
    • “Witchcraft”· in subject
    • “witches”· in edition subtitle

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a notable sorcerer, who was burned at Edenbrough in Ianuary last. 1591. Which doctor was regester to the diuell that sundry times preached at North Barrick Kirke, to a number of notorious witches. With the true examination of the saide doctor and witches, as they vttered them in the presence of the Scottish king. Discouering how they pretended to bewitch and drowne his Maiestie in the sea comming from Denmarke, with such other wonderfull matters as the like hath not been heard of at any time. Published according to the Scottish coppie.

Open Library record

1592Printed [By E. Allde?] for William WrightEnglish—No ebook

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openlibrary-edition:OL18471129M
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