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/1998 Janet Hendersone

name of accused
Janet Hendersone
designated title
no information
Accused Reference
A/EGD/1955
Case date start
6/7/1626
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

  • not enough information (secondary characteristic)
  • not enough information (primary characteristic)
  • white magic (secondary characteristic)
Characterisation Notes
None
additional persons
name involvement notes
Alexander Murray Commissioner
David Murray Commissioner
Adam Murray Commissioner
John Murray Commissioner
Andrew Hay Commissioner
Robert Hunter Commissioner
Robert Douglas Commissioner
William Douglas Commissioner
William Govan Commissioner
Tait George Commissioner
None None Commissioner
John Scott Commissioner
Michael Scott Commissioner
Alexander Spittal Commissioner
James Williamson Commissioner
James Horseburgh Commissioner
Robert Thomson Commissioner
John Lowes Commissioner

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

  • Specific ritual acts
Notes
Accused of turning the riddle (sieve), a form of divination used to find lost goods or identify a thief.

Counter strategies

  • no information

white magic

  • Finding lost goods

Elf/fairy elements

  • no information

Shape-changing

  • no information

Ritual objects

  • Sieve

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

  • Charming
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
Committee of Estates PA11/8 fo. 187v.-188r. None
RPC 2nd Series v3, p. 170 commission to search for arrest and examine the accused.
Peebles Presbytery records CH2/295/2 p. 29 Accused was guilty of turning the riddle.