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As Allan Stewart had publicly threatened the life of Glenure and had enquired about his schedule for the day in question, a warrant was issued for his arrest. However, he evaded capture. He was tried in absentia and sentenced to death. His foster father, James, was convicted as an accessory to the murder and hanged.
Alexander "Sawney" Bean (sometimes also given as Sandy Bane, etc.) is a legendary figure, said to have been the head of a 45-member clan in Scotland in the 16th century that murdered and cannibalised over 1,000 people in 25 years.
Only person accused of witchcraft in Scotland with a known grave Lilias Adie ( c. 1640 – 1704) [ 1 ] was a Scottish woman who lived in the coastal village of Torryburn , Fife , Scotland. [ 1 ] She was accused of practising witchcraft and fornicating with the devil but died in prison before sentence could be passed.
Foxe and Knox attribute to him a prophecy of the death of the Cardinal, who was assassinated on 29 May following, partly in revenge for Wishart's death. [8] Wishart's preaching in 1544–45 helped popularise the teachings of Calvin and Zwingli in Scotland. [citation needed] He translated into English the first Helvetic Confession of Faith in ...
Sir William Wallace (Scottish Gaelic: Uilleam Uallas, pronounced [ˈɯʎam ˈuəl̪ˠəs̪]; Norman French: William le Waleys; [2] c. 1270 [3] – 23 August 1305) was a Scottish knight who became one of the main leaders during the First War of Scottish Independence.
Whatever this cryptic statement meant, it shows the king's doings were the subject of common talk". [ 7 ] Agnes Sampson, another of the accused witches, in one of her confessions, described Geillis Duncan as leading a dance Cummer, go ye before to the tune Gyllatripes , at the Auld Kirk of North Berwick playing a "small trump" or Jew's Harp. [ 8 ]
Major Thomas Weir (1599 – 1670) was a Scottish soldier and presumed occultist, executed for bestiality, incest and adultery. Weir was a Covenanter who professed a particularly strict form of Presbyterianism. His spoken prayers earned him a reputation for religiosity which attracted visitors to his home in Edinburgh.
Harper was born in the village of Houston, Renfrewshire, Scotland, in 1872.He personally embraced his parents' Christian faith at age 14 and began preaching at 18. He supported himself in early adulthood by doing manual labor in a mill until Baptist pastor E.A. Carter of Baptist Pioneer Mission in London heard of his preaching and placed him in ministry work in Govan, Scotland.