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that account. Thereafter finding his indiſpoſition growing worſe being tormented and pricked as with bodkins and pins, he openly laid the blame on her witchraft He continuing to be tormented ſhe was by warrant, apprehended with others in Pittenweem No natural reaſon could be given for his diſtemper, his face and neck being dreadfully diſtorted, his back prodigiouſly riſing and falling on a ſudden, his joints pliable and inſtantly ſo ſtiff, as no human power could bow them. The ſaid Betty Laing and her companions being in cuſtody were brought to the room where he was and his face covered. He then told them his tormentors were in the room and named them. And tho they formerly would make no confeſſion Betty Laing now confeſſed her crime, and accuſed several others.
The ſaid Betty Laing confeſſed her compact with the devil and uſing of ſpells; and particularly her slackening the coal in water — ſhe named her aſſociates in revenge againſt Peter Morton viz Janet Corſet Lilly Wallace, and one Lawſon who had framed a picture of wax, and every one of the forenamed perſons put a pin in the picture for torture. They could not tell that became of the image but thought the devil - whom they had ſeen in the priſon had ſtolen it.
Betty Laing, likewiſe ſaid, that one lſobel Adams, a young laſs, was alſo in compact with the devil This woman was deſired to ſee with Betty which ſhe refuſed: and Betty her ſee a man at the other end of the table,
