Readers, please enjoy this guest blog post by Donald Tyson, author of a number of books, including the new Demonology of King James I. King James the Sixth of Scotland, who later went on to become King James the First of England, was a singularly unlovable man. He could barely walk due to rickets in infancy, had a speech impediment, dribbled wine down his chin when he drank, seldom bathed, and was arrogant about his pretensions of scholarship. He was fanatically religious, superstitious, cowardly, and given to night fears and paranoia. This was the man who in 1590 became absolutely convinced that the Devil was out to kill him by using his agents, the witches. At this period in history