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Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live EXODUS 22:18 Witches' confessions were not the fevered tales of Gothic horror. There was little if any flying around on broomsticks or turning your neighbour into a toad. These were everyday matters: causing the milk of a neighbour's cow to dry up, spoiling ale, raising a storm to ruin crops. But everyday matters though they were, they were also matters of life and death. The years between 1600 and 1700 were a period of war, famine, plague and religious upheaval in Scotland. A time when ordinary women, and men, of the Scottish Borders who fell under the suspicion of the Kirk would face interrogation and torture. A time when fear of Auld Nick turned the world upside down and the cry of witch would almost always lead to the rope and