Survey of Scottish Witchcraft, 1563 - 1736

Goodare, Julian; Yeoman, Louise; Martin, Lauren; Miller, Joyce

Case Details

C/EGD/1820 Mali Laidlaw

name of accused: Mali Laidlaw
designated title: no information
Accused Reference: A/EGD/1794
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

maleficium (secondary characteristic)
Implicated by another (secondary characteristic)
Implicated by others (primary characteristic)

Characterisation Notes: Denounced by Janet Coutts but another witness blamed Laidlaw for death of her cow.

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
George Cathie	Witch-pricker
William Morton	Minister
John Home	Investigator
John Wilson	Investigator
John Veitch	Investigator
Robert Sempill	Investigator
Alexander Tenant	Investigator

linked trials
name	trial type	link	year	notes
Mali Laidlaw	Local Court	T/JO/1117	None

Qualitative information

Non-natural beings

Notes: None

no information

Demonic pacts

no information

witches meetings

Notes: None

Meeting places

no information

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

Animal death
Quarreling

Notes: Witness claimed that Laidlaw had caused the death of her cattle after an exchange of words.

Cause of witch's malice

no information

Other maleficia

Property damage

Damage to property

Animals

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. The presbytery records have no pagination.