The Survey of Scottish Witchcraft

1563-1736

By Julian Goodare, Lauren Martin, Joyce Miller and Louise Yeoman, January 2003

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Case Details

C/EGD/1312 Agnes Clarkson

name of accused
Agnes Clarkson
designated title
no information
Accused Reference
A/EGD/1300
Case date start
7/6/1649
Given case date
no information
Case commission
no information
case complaint
no information
case correspondence
no information
case chronicle
no information
other details
no information

characterisation

  • demonic (secondary characteristic)
  • maleficium (secondary characteristic)
  • not enough information (secondary characteristic)
  • not enough information (primary characteristic)
Characterisation Notes
None

Qualitative information

Non-natural beings

Notes
Her house was filled with a black wind and mist when she first refused to join the Devil. She was questioned as to how she renounced her baptism and she answered that it was really done with the carnal copulation.
  • Animal Devil a black dun dogg
  • Male black man
  • Male black man with a staff

Demonic pacts

  • Sex
  • Anti-baptism
  • Devil's Mark back side of left arm below the elbow
  • New name Nan Clark or Nan Clatt

witches meetings

  • Witches meeting
  • Devil present
  • Food and drink
  • Dancing
Notes
None

Meeting places

  • Dirleton Green

musical instruments

  • no information

Folk culture

Notes
None

Counter strategies

  • no information

white magic

  • no information

Elf/fairy elements

  • no information

Shape-changing

  • no information

Ritual objects

  • no information

Religious motif

  • no information

Calendar customs

  • no information

Diseases or illness

Notes
sundry malefices alleged but not specified

Cause of witch's malice

  • no information

Other maleficia

Damage to property

  • no information

weather modification

  • no information

Notes
None

Other charges

  • no information

Notes
None

Plea

Claimed bewitched
no
Claimed possessed
no
Admitted lesser charges
no
No defence
no
Claimed natural causes
no
Notes
None
Case Notes
None
references
name notes
RPC 2nd S, v8 pp. 189-190 None