Editing Warlock (section)

==History==
Although most victims of the [[witch trials in early modern Scotland]] were women, some men were executed as warlocks.<ref>Thomas Thomson, ''A History of the Scottish People from the Earliest Times'' (1896), page 286: "Where one man suffered as a warlock, ten women at least were executed as witches."</ref><ref>Robert Chambers, ''Domestic Annals of Scotland: From the Reformation to the Revolution'' (1874), page 244</ref><ref>''Journal of Jurisprudence and Scottish Law Magazine'' (1891), ''Execution of the Judgment of Death'', page 397: "We read (Law's ''Memor.'' Pref. lix.) that 'one John Brugh, a notorious warlock (wizard) in the parochin of [[Crook of Devon| Fossoquhy]], by the space of thirty-six years, was worried at a stake and burned, 1643.'"</ref>

In his day, the Scottish mathematician [[John Napier]] (1550–1617) was often perceived as a warlock or magician because of his interests in divination and the occult, though his establishment position likely kept him from being prosecuted.<ref>Roger A. Mason, ''Scots and Britons: Scottish Political Thought and the Union of 1603'' (2006, {{ISBN|0521026202}}), page 199</ref><ref>Julian Havil, ''John Napier: Life, Logarithms, and Legacy'' (2014, {{ISBN|1400852188}}), page 19</ref>