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#REDIRECT [[Pittenweem witches]] |
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Beatrix (Betty or Beatrice) Lang (Laing or Layng) was amongst those accused of being [[Pittenweem witches]] in [[Pittenweem]], [[Fife]], [[Scotland]] in 1704. She was named by presbyterian minister, [[Patrick Cowper]], along with seven others.<ref>{{Cite book |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/848162904 |title=Scottish Witches and Witch-Hunters |date=2013 |others=Julian Goodare |isbn=978-1-137-35593-5 |location=New York |pages=226-227 |oclc=848162904}}</ref> Cowper read an account of the Christian shaw case to Patrick Morton and encouraged him to implicate Beatrix Laing.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Webster |first=David |title=A Collection of Rare and Curious Tracts on Witchcraft and the Second Sight |year=1820 |location=Edinburgh |pages=72 |language=English}}</ref> Laing was released but was prosecuted again in 1708-1709 (counted here as a small group) along with Nicolas Lawson, but was again released.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Levack |title=Witch-hunting and witch-murder |pages=159-60}}</ref> |
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