Originally published in 1820 by John Sutherland, Edinburgh in a booklet linked to Sir Walter Scott's novel The Heart of Midlothian. Madge Wildfire is a character in this novel.  Reconstructed by the RSCDS in 2021 to mark the 250th anniversary of Sir Walter Scott's birth.

The RSCDS has previously published a different reconstruction of this dance in Book 9  <<https://my.strathspey.org/dd/dance/4064/>>