This Wednesday, the Bastards will discuss a selection from Emma Wilby’s The Visions of Isobel Gowdie. Pages 31-36 will furnish a bit of context about the alleged witch and the Scottish Witch Trials. The heart of the matter is the confessions themselves, pages 37-52. Please read through the confessions before coming, and attempt your own translation of some portion of the text. The Confessions are written in delightful but sometimes confusing 17th century Scots.