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/1247 Margaret Gilchrist

name of accused
Margaret Gilchrist
designated title
no information
Accused Reference
A/EGD/1235
Case date start
8/9/1630
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)
  • Implicated by others (primary characteristic)
  • not enough information (secondary characteristic)
Characterisation Notes
None
additional persons
name involvement notes
no additional persons recorded

Qualitative information

Non-natural beings

Notes
None
  • no information

Demonic pacts

  • no information

witches meetings

  • Witches meeting
  • Devil present
Notes
Marion Hardie (c/la/2876) confessed this whole group of witches cast a number of stones in the water mouth when a boat was coming in, in order to destroy it and its crew.

Meeting places

  • Dee, beside the blockehous River mouth

musical instruments

  • no information

Folk culture

  • Specific ritual acts
  • Sympathetic magic
Notes
None

Counter strategies

  • no information

white magic

  • no information

Elf/fairy elements

  • no information

Shape-changing

  • no information

Ritual objects

  • Stones

Religious motif

  • no information

Calendar customs

  • no information

Diseases or illness

  • Human death
Notes
None

Cause of witch's malice

  • no information

Other maleficia

  • Property damage

    • Damage to property

    • Boats

    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
    RPC 2nd S, V4 p. 39 Commission of interrogation and arrest.