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Douglas witches and witchcraft
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  • Barbary Naipar, in Edinburgh, wife to Archibald Douglas of the house of Cashogle
  • King James confiscated Glamis Castle for the crown by accusing Lady Janet Douglas, wife of 6th Lord of Glamis, of witchcraft and of making deadly potions with which to kill him.
  • Isobell Ewart, spous to William Douglas of Pumpherston, was charged also with having said there was four hundreth merkis gott in fra the witches.
  • During the 1670s, in the western islands of Scotland, Janet Douglas began publicly "demonstrating" said sight by seeking out "images", objects allegedly made by witches. Two sons of Douglas of Barloch having been drowned, crossing a river at one time, the father was induced by Janet Douglas (reknowned for identifying witches) to believe that the calamity was the effect of witchcraft.
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