Useful Witch

1597. Isobell Straquhan could not only produce love, but remove hatred. Walter Ronaidson had used to strike
his wife, who took consultation with Straquhan, and she did take pieces of paper, and sew them thick with thread
of divers colours, and did put them in the barn amongst the corn, and from henceforth the said Walter did never
strike his wife, neither yet once found fault with her, whatsoever she did.

He was subdued “entirely to her love.”

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