Survey of Scottish Witchcraft, 1563 - 1736

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

Case Details

C/EGD/1860 Marioun Robiesone

name of accused: Marioun Robiesone
designated title: no information
Accused Reference: A/EGD/1831
Case date start: 23/10/1649
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)
not enough information (secondary characteristic)
not enough information (primary characteristic)

Characterisation Notes: Confessed to pact and meeting other witches but no other details of her practice

additional persons
name	involvement	notes
Alexander Murray	Commissioner
Andrew Hay	Commissioner
Robert Hunter	Commissioner
Robert Douglas	Commissioner
Michael Scott	Commissioner
Alexander Spittal	Commissioner
James Williamson	Commissioner
James Horseburgh	Commissioner
John Lowes	Commissioner

linked trials
name	trial type	link	year	notes
Marioun Robiesone	Mentioned in trial	T/JO/583	None
Marioun Robiesone	Local Court	T/JO/584	1649

Qualitative information

Non-natural beings

Notes: No description of devil, but met at midnight

no information

Demonic pacts

Anti-baptism
Body and soul

witches meetings

Witches meeting
Devil present

Notes: None

Meeting places

Kirkurd

musical instruments

no information

Folk culture

Elphane or Fairyland

Notes: None

Counter strategies

no information

white magic

no information

Elf/fairy elements

Midnight

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
None None	Gunn, C B 'The Book of Stobo Church' (Peebles, 1907), p 50-1. The project did not check Larner's reference to this printed secondary source as part of the research.
Peebles Presbytery records CH2/295/3, 130v.	Entry details her confession
Peebles Presbytery records CH2/295/4, 1r	Entry records date of local trial
Committee of Estates PA11/8 fo. 184r.	None