John Brughe, the Glendevon Wizard

The book says he cured cattle and people with enchanted drinks and 'Glendovan and Mukhart mould', and by sympathetic conjuring of shirts and belts. It repeats testimony from a woman tried at Culross that he had been with the devil at the Rumbling Brigs. He was condemned to be strangled and burned. Hallyburton and Gordon add that he named Margaret Kinnaird as an accomplice in digging up corpses, and that his mention of an aunt called Nik Neveing puts her burning around 1563, which conflicts with the later date usually given for Kate McNiven. Chronicles says the Devon valley saw a record year in which sixteen local 'covin' were burned.