In trying to collect evidence as to the Rerrick “evil spirit” from
Kirk-Session Records, I have been most kindly assisted by the Rev.
Mr. M‘Conachie, Minister of Rerrick. Mr. M‘Conachie finds that only
two parishes in the Stewartry, Kells and Girthon, have records
containing the years 1695, 1696. The records of Rerrick do not go so
far back. We are therefore left to the pamphlet of 1696, by Telfair,
which is an unusually business-like statement, the names of attesting
witnesses being added in the marginal notes. For phenomena singularly
similar to those of Rerrick, _Obeah_, by Mr. H. J. Bell, may be
consulted. (_Obeah_, Sampson Low & Co., London, 1889, p. 93.)