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/1279 Margaret Hutton

name of accused
Margaret Hutton
designated title
no information
Accused Reference
A/EGD/1267
Case date start
12/10/1643
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)
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

Notes
None

Counter strategies

  • no information

white magic

  • no information

Elf/fairy elements

  • no information

Shape-changing

  • no information

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

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
MacDonald in The Witches of Fife notes that on 28 May 1643 Hutton was denounced to the KS. MacDonald's list has an end date of 7/111643, but I was unable to find anything of this date in her case.
references
name notes
RPC 2nd S, v8 p. 12 See also Benson, App 2, p 267. This reference is to Bensen, R 'South-West Fife and the Scottish Revolutions: The Presbytery of Dunfermline, 1633-52' M Litt Diss, University of Edinburgh, 1978. The Project did not check secondary sources from Larner or Macdonald.