Major Thomas Weir was a Scottish soldier and presumed occultist, executed for witchcraft.

During one of Weir’s many prayer meetings he suddenly began to confess of the most unspeakable crimes. He announced his incestuous relationship with his sister Jean along with shocking tales of fornication with all manner of women and beasts.

Thomas Major was arrested. The trial began on April 9, 1670 and Jean told how the talent for witchcraft has been inherited from their mother, and revealed that Thomas bore the mark of the Beast on his body.

Weir was convicted of witchcraft and was taken to a spot on the cities boundary with Leith where he was strangled and burnt.

Major Thomas Weir was the last man executed for witchcraft in Scotland. As his body burned his staff was thrown into the fire. Witnesses said that it took an unusually long time to burn and made strange turning movements as it burned.

Weir's house earned a notorious reputation and remained uninhabited for a long time. Some claimed to have seen fiery flames lighting the rooms, accompanied by hysteric laughter. On other occasions, Major Weir was seen coming out of the house and getting into a black coach drawn by sinister horses. While nothing remains of the warlock’s house, his ghost might still be seen striding along the dark alleys and closes of Edinburgh’s Old Town.