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/293 Jonet Black

name of accused
Jonet Black
designated title
no information
Accused Reference
A/EGD/282
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)
  • maleficium (secondary characteristic)
  • Implicated by another (secondary characteristic)
  • not enough information (secondary characteristic)
  • not enough information (primary characteristic)
Characterisation Notes
None

Qualitative information

Non-natural beings

Notes
Did not confess to any features of demonic pact to the presbytery but they implied it. She later did confess to a demonic pact. She was heard yelling to Satan to get out of her bed.
  • Female woman with black pot
  • Animal Devil dog with a sow's head
  • Animal Devil black dog

Demonic pacts

  • Sex when a black dog lay with her in bed
  • Devil's Mark Right shoulder

witches meetings

  • Witches meeting
  • Devil present
Notes
The Devil went home with her in a great storm

Meeting places

  • None Meadow
  • Bagraburn Burn
  • other person's house House
  • None Barn
  • Loanhead

musical instruments

  • no information

Folk culture

  • Shape changing
Notes
Confessed some story about having a moldiewort that she kept at home ?familiar but unlikely. A woman saw a woman walking home from where they collected mussels, looked back and saw only a sow, and 'in the twinkling of an eye' she saw no sow but Jonet Black.

Counter strategies

  • no information

white magic

  • no information

Elf/fairy elements

  • no information

Shape-changing

  • Animal Corbie
  • Animal Sow

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

  • Property damage

    • Damage to property

    • Boats

    weather modification

    • no information

    Notes
    Accused of damaging the boat at Black grange while in the shape of a corbie.

    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
    Stirling Presbytery records CH2/722/6, pp. 89-99. None
    Process Notes JC26/26 bundle 3 'Stirling witches', item 20 Mentioned. Also found in the High Court Record Index, no. 1 for 3/8/1658. Tthis 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.