A report of a talk to Duns u3a members in 2021 says the speaker, Peter Aitchison, a native of Eyemouth who has written about the 1881 fishing disaster, described how in the late sixteenth and seventeenth centuries more than thirty so called witches were accused, convicted and executed in the small community over a period of sixty five years. The summary gives no individual names, dates or execution sites.
The Survey of Scottish Witchcraft, an online database of cases from 1563 to 1736, would be the place to check names and outcomes. Berwickshire accounts for a large share of Borders accusations. I have not verified the Eyemouth figure against that database, so treat it as a local historian's estimate.
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