Issobell Fergussone or Isobel Ferguson was a Scottish woman who confessed to witchcraft in Dalkeith, Edinburgh during the year 1661.
However, whilst pricking her on 5 July 1661 they were successful in finding the devils mark which led her to confess.
[2] The result of this trial led to her execution with the methods of strangling and then burning on 6 August 1661.
She also had a dispute with her son and told his wife that he would have a bad homecoming, on his return he fell ill and died.
She was believed to have met the devil at either her or William Tweedie's House, between Skloutford and Liberton Road, at her farm yard or near the bridge at the bank of John Ballingtyne's shore.