THE DEVIL’S MENWhen they came to apprehend him he knew that it must be a mistake, and told them so: that he was naught but a schoolmaster, and a respectable man, and that his name was not Fian at all but only John Cunningham, and that he did not know Geillis Duncan—who had named him a witch—at all. When they threw him into prison he was certain in his own mind that they would quickly discover their mistake and release him.
When rumor was carried to him that the king himself had taken an interest in those whom Geillis Duncan had accused he felt certain that justice would soon be done and that all would be well. When further rumor reached him that one Agnes Thompson had told the king that Satan himself had appeared at North Berwick kirk, in order to instruct the witches gathered there to ma
