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/2471 Marion Maguate

name of accused
Marion Maguate (alias Malie)
designated title
no information
Accused Reference
A/EGD/2395
Case date start
14/5/1640
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

  • unorthodox religious practise (secondary characteristic)
  • folk healing (secondary characteristic)
  • folk healing (primary characteristic)
  • not enough information (secondary characteristic)
Characterisation Notes
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

  • Specific Verbal Formulae
  • Specific ritual acts
  • Unorthodox religious practice
  • Sympathetic magic
Notes
None

Counter strategies

  • no information

white magic

  • no information

Elf/fairy elements

  • no information

Shape-changing

  • no information

Ritual objects

  • Axe

Religious motif

  • Prayer

Calendar customs

  • no information

Diseases or illness

  • Healing animals
Notes
Asked to heal a cow and mare.

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
Lanark Presbytery Records CH2/234/1. See also J Robertson 'Selections from the Register of the Presbytery of Lanark' Edinburgh, 1839, p 20. The project did not check Larner's reference to this printed secondary source as part of the research. Accused was from Coulter, which was in Biggar presbytery but the details were recorded in the Lanark presbytery records.