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  3. Angus Archives, “Helen Guthrie - A Wicked Woman, Forfar 1663,” Scottish Archive Network, n.d., https://www.scan.org.uk/exhibitions/guthrie.htm.

  4. Bruce Michael Conforth, Ph.D., “Ike Zimmerman: The X in Robert Johnson’s Crossroads,” University of Michigan, https://www.academia.edu/2408177/_Ike_Zimmerman_The_X_in_Robert_Johnson_s_Crossroads_Living_Blues_2008.

  5. Charles Kirkpatrick Sharpe, A historical account of the belief in witchcraft in Scotland (London: Hamilton, Adams & co., 1884), orig. pub’d 1819, pp. 268, https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/000582176.

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  7. Frank Almond, “Giuseppe Tartini,” A Violin’s Life, 2013, https://aviolinslife.org/tartinilipinski/.

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  9. George Dunea, MD, “Nicolo Paganini - a case of mercury poisoning?,” Hektoen International: A Journal of Medical Humanities, Fall 2018, https://hekint.org/2018/11/15/nicolo-paganini-a-case-of-mercury-poisoning.

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