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- ↑ Mackenzie, William (1841). The History of Galloway: From the Earliest Period to the Present Time. Kirkcudbright: John Nicholson. pp. 2.342–3.
- ↑ Henderson, L. (2006). "The survival of witchcraft prosecutions and witch belief in South West Scotland" (PDF). Scottish Historical Review. 85: 52–74. doi:10.3366/shr.2006.0015. ISSN 0036-9241. S2CID 159538376.
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{{citation}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) - 1 2 Temperley, Alan (2015). Tales of Galloway. London. ISBN 978-1-78057-838-5. OCLC 1004976693.
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