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/1818 Marion Hunter

name of accused
Marion Hunter
designated title
no information
Accused Reference
A/EGD/1792
Case date start
8/11/1649
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)
  • Implicated by another (secondary characteristic)
  • Implicated by others (primary characteristic)
Characterisation Notes
Accused by Janet Coutts but Hunter later made a confession about demonic pact
additional persons
name involvement notes
William Douglas Investigator
Robert Birnie Investigator
William Lockhart Investigator
Alexander Lindsay Investigator
Gideon Fathie Investigator
Patrick Craig Investigator
James Cuningham Investigator
James Cuningham Investigator
James Veitch Investigator
William Morton Minister
John Home Investigator
George Cathie Witch-pricker
John Wilson Investigator
John Veitch Investigator
Robert Sempill Investigator
Alexander Tenant Investigator
William Somerville Investigator
Richard Inglis Investigator

Qualitative information

Non-natural beings

Notes
None
  • Male
  • Animal Devil young dog
  • Animal Devil young brown dog

Demonic pacts

  • Servant
  • Devil's Mark on shoulder

witches meetings

  • Witches meeting
  • Devil present
Notes
None

Meeting places

  • Gallowbeirnie Hill Hilltop

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
None

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
Lanark Presbytery Records CH2/234/1. See also W Hunter 'Biggar and the House of Fleming' Biggar, 1862, p. 386. The project did not check this secondary reference. Presbytery records have no pagination