Women were typically domestic workers within the household and society, performing tasks such as child rearing, weaving, and caretaking roles. mother, sister, daughter, wife and guardian. in the community. Men were either seen as the husbands of witchcraft users or as someone with an intense authority figure. “Sir Andrew Ramsay, Lord Abbotshall and then Provost of Edinburgh” were all men of high status within the Edinburgh community in which Thomas lived. In the age of witchcraft in Scotland, women became linked to the Devil through possession, while most men did not have carnal knowledge of the work of the Devil himself, but rather with a witch who had a connection with the Devil. Since women were seen as prominent members of the witchcraft community, there may be multiple differences between the testimonies and accusations against Jane and Thomas Weir. Thomas was accused of incest, adultery, fornication and bestiality because he had slept with his sister and several people in the community in which he lives. While his sister Jane was linked to incest with her brother, she was also fully prosecuted for witchcraft, which is an equal, if not worse, punishment than Thomas' crimes. “She is also outraged* at the Sorcreys* committed by her when she lived and kept* a school in Dalkeith. That she accepted the employment of a woman to speak on her behalf to the Queen of