The charges as described are Highland rather than demonic. There is no pact with the Devil in the surviving account, only clay figures, flint arrows, poisons and the services of cunning folk. Tain was a religious centre until the Reformation, and one account notes that the abolition of the collegiate church of St Duthus left a gap that cunning folk filled.
See the Chanonry record for what happened to the accused, and the Lady Fowlis record for the family at the centre.
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