To my previous Note, I beg leave to append a passage from Arnot's
_Criminal Trials_ (p. 368.), which may tend to throw some light on this
subject. In speaking of the witch prosecutions in Scotland, this writer
says:
"If an unfortunate woman, trembling at a citation for witchcraft,
ended her sufferings by her own hand, she was dragged from her
house at a horse's tail, and buried under the gallows."