and his wife , seeing this , thought that she would teach him a lesson not to be so curious in the future . so , when she and her four friends thought that it was time to be gone , she departed without waking him . he slept peacefully for some hours , until two of the bishop 's servants , coming down to the cellar to draw wine for their master 's table , almost fell over him in the darkness . greatly astonished at his presence there , for the cellar door was fast locked , they dragged him up to the light and shook him , and cuffed him , and asked him how he came to be there . and the poor old man was so confused at being awakened in this rough way , and his head seemed to whirl round so fast , that all he could stammer out was , " that he came from fife , and that he had travelled on the midnight wind . " as soon as they heard that , the men servants cried out that he was a warlock , and they dragged him before the bishop , and , as bishops in those days had a holy horror of warlocks and witches , he ordered him to be burned alive . when the sentence was pronounced , you may be very sure that the poor old man wished with all his heart that he had stayed quietly at home in bed , and never hankered after the bishop 's wine . but it was too late to wish that now , for the servants dragged him out into the courtyard , and put a chain round his waist , and fastened it to a great iron stake , and they piled faggots of wood round his feet and set them alight . 
the husband told them that he travelled on the midnight wind .
why did the servants believe that he was a warlock ?
why did the servants believe that he was a warlock ?