Margaret Hormscleuch and Isobel Haldane, Perth 1623

In July 1623 Janet Barry was made to stand in white sheets and pay twenty merks for consulting a witch about her sick child, and Janet Jackson was accused of asking Isobel Haldane for help. Haldane washed the child's shirt in a sacred well and prepared a cake to cure a 'cake mark'. Both Hormscleuch and Haldane were executed. Cowan's history adds that Hormscleuch said she used 'south running water' and 'swine seam' to treat a man, and that she insisted her power came from the Lord Jesus Christ. It also says Haldane claimed fairies had taken her to a hillside where a grey-bearded man brought her back after three days, and that she used what she learned to predict a death. That summary gives the year 1723 in the version we read, so the date of the second detail is uncertain.