Heres something that might interest you. Was not 500 years ago was it?
Ms Duncan, who lived in Niddrie at the time but travelled the country putting on seances for relatives, was convicted in 1944 under the 1735 Witchcraft Act for "pretending to raise the spirits of the dead". She was sentenced to nine months in Holloway prison.
http://heritage.scotsman.com/myths/T...tch.2822386.jp