Jonet Coutts
Accused of witchcraft
About Jonet Coutts
Janet Coutts or Jonet Coutts (fl. 1640s) was the last to be executed for witchcraft in Peebles in the Scottish Borders and was at the centre of a major witch hunt that would implicate 88 others accused of witchcraft.
Accusation Coutts was accused in the parish of Kirkurd, Peeblesshire
In October 1649, the witch pricker George Cathie colluded with Coutts following her imprisonment in Peebles in order to make her his 'star witness'.
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Who was Jonet Coutts?
accused of witchcraft
When did Jonet Coutts die?
Jonet Coutts died in 1650.
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