They asked her how she came to say any thing that was not true; she cried out ‘Alas, alas, I behoved to say so, to please the minister and bailies;’ and in the meantime, she begged for Christ’s sake not to tell that she had said so, else she would be murdered.
— Privy Council Minute, at Edinburgh, 15th day of February 1705, The Annals of Pittenweem, Being Notes and Extracts from the Ancient Records of that Burgh
Thou shall not suffer a witch to live.
— Exodus 22:18 King James Bible