This chapter examines the symbolic construction of the witch as a social “outsider” in early modern England and Scotland through an analysis of witchcraft trial pamphlets from 1566 to 1711. Drawing on Elias and Scotson’s established-outsider relations framework, the study explores how the figure of the witch crystallised contemporary anxieties surrounding religious instability, gender norms, and social behavioural standards. Through a systematic analysis of pamphlet narratives, the chapter reveals that witches were characterised primarily through gendered transgressions of expected social conduct rather than purely supernatural activities. The pamphlets present witches as women who violated normative expectations of emotional restraint, maternal instinct, and marital propriety, whilst male witches were afforded greater agency and portrayed as exploitative rather than emotionally volatile. The chapter demonstrates how these popular texts functioned as instruments of social regulation, reinforcing behavioural boundaries through negative exemplars. The characterisation of witches as simultaneously powerful through their demonic associations yet socially marginal through their gender and behavioural deviance explains the paradoxical position of women in early modern social figurations, where accusations of witchcraft both condemned and, paradoxically, explained female social transgression.