Scottish folklore and witchcraft record

John Maxwell Wood

J. Maxwell Wood was a Scottish physician and local historian based in Dumfries who edited The Gallovidian (1900–1911) and authored Witchcraft and Superstitious Record in the South-Western District of Scotland (1911). His work gathered primary source material on witchcraft trials, fairy lore, ghost stories, and death warnings from the Galloway region, preserving records of popular supernatural belief that would otherwise have been lost.