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/291 Kathrine Remy

name of accused
Kathrine Remy
designated title
no information
Accused Reference
A/EGD/280
Case date start
11/5/1658
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)
  • demonic (primary characteristic)
  • Implicated by another (secondary characteristic)
Characterisation Notes
None

Qualitative information

Non-natural beings

Notes
She held the Devil's hand but was frightened. His hand was cold.
  • Male in grey clothes and blue hat
  • Fairy in green waistcoat and grey gown
  • Female in white gown

Demonic pacts

  • Tacit pact
  • Servant
  • Anti-baptism

witches meetings

  • Witches meeting
  • Devil present
  • Dancing
  • Singing
Notes
She was questioned about other people at witches' meetings, She did not know who the women in white and grey were, but the woman in white might have been Elspett Black. Investigators wanted to know who the woman with the black pock was, ?possibly Katherine Kay. They danced in a ring at a meeting.

Meeting places

  • None Meadow
  • other people's house House
  • a yard dyk Yard

musical instruments

  • no information

Folk culture

  • Elphane or Fairyland
Notes
Woman in green waiscoat with a black pot ?fairy. Joined the devil during Lenten.

Counter strategies

  • no information

white magic

  • no information

Elf/fairy elements

  • Green

Shape-changing

  • no information

Ritual objects

  • no information

Religious motif

  • no information

Calendar customs

  • Lent

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
K. Remy, B. Paton, and M. Tailior were extrajudicially tortured and burnt with hot stones by four local men. The JPs questioned them, and confronted them with the three witchcraft suspects. No further action was taken.
references
name notes
Process Notes JC26/24 JP investigation into extrajudicial torturing.
Stirling Presbytery records CH2/722/6. Pp. 89-97. None
Process Notes JC26/24 JPs order for assize to appear in Edinburgh at trial in 1658 (I don't think this trial happened?), Also found in the High Court Record Index, no. 1 for 3/8/1658. This index did not distinguish between circuit and high court cases. This list of names was added in the margins with a modern hand, no indication of where the person got the list.
Process Notes JC26/26 bundle 3 'Stirling witches', item 20, 21 mentioned