Talk:Agnes Sampson

Warning to editors
The quoted text is in archaic English with archaic spelling. Because it is quoted text, the spelling should not be corrected to modern English spelling. --Greenmaven (talk) 21:38, 7 December 2012 (UTC)

Which Keith?
The citation for the “Wise Wife of Keith” title is to James Gordon’s “The Book of the Chronicles of Keith, Grange, Ruthven, Cairney, and Botriphnie: Events, Places, and Persons”, which is about Keith in the North East of Scotland; yet the article says she lived at Nether Keith in the Lothians. The Chronicles does appear to mention her, but the link takes you to a Google page which shows you the index, but provides no other information to show why she is in the book. Did she have connections with both, or was it one or the other? Probably would help to clarify this, if possible. Jock123 (talk) 16:37, 8 April 2015 (UTC)


 * Keith Marischal or Nether Keith is south of Tranent, the town where the schoolmaster John Fion lived. The story and the alias "wise wife of Keith" appear in the contemporary narrative called the History of James the Sext, so I changed the reference to point to that source. Most of the other Keith lands were in the North East. Unoquha (talk) 18:44, 8 September 2019 (UTC)

Failed verification for death date
The source cited for the death date does not actually give a death date, so far as I can tell. The cited page does say she was convicted, and several pages earlier there is a date of 27 January 1591, which suggests she was convicted on that date, but the date of execution is not given. Jc3s5h (talk) 18:51, 21 October 2018 (UTC)

I resolved this by finding a better source. Jc3s5h (talk) 15:11, 2 August 2019 (UTC)

Quoted in Witches of Eastwick
Agnes Sampson is quoted in the John Updike novel The Witches of Eastwick. 2601:284:100:61B0:C8D:8B39:F59:4223 (talk) 14:44, 18 March 2023 (UTC)