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/1284 Jonet Reid

name of accused
Jonet Reid
designated title
no information
Accused Reference
A/EGD/1272
Case date start
14/5/1643
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

  • unorthodox religious practise (secondary characteristic)
  • demonic (secondary characteristic)
  • folk healing (secondary characteristic)
  • folk healing (primary characteristic)
  • maleficium (secondary characteristic)
  • white magic (secondary characteristic)
Characterisation Notes
None
additional persons
name involvement notes
no additional persons recorded

Qualitative information

Non-natural beings

Notes
note that she kept company with the Devil, but no description of when, where or what he looked like.
  • no information

Demonic pacts

  • no information

witches meetings

  • Devil present
Notes
None

Meeting places

  • no information

musical instruments

  • no information

Folk culture

  • Specific Verbal Formulae
  • Specific ritual acts
  • Unorthodox religious practice
Notes
When drying corn with a hot stone she was heard to say 'I am drying this corne to the devill', then the stone broke. She cured a man who was plagued by the ghost of his dead first wife. A weird little ritual, she told a man to put a piece of moss on the end of a stick to protect his crops. A man was troubled by apparitions of his first wife, she told him to go to her grave and charge her to 'ly still'. Cured the 'boneshaw', maybe boneshot. She used nine blue stones that she put in water. Cured the hart cake.

Counter strategies

  • no information

white magic

  • Prophesy
  • Protective

Elf/fairy elements

  • no information

Shape-changing

  • no information

Ritual objects

  • Stones
  • Sieve
  • Iron (hot)
  • Water
  • Bone

Religious motif

  • Nine

Calendar customs

  • no information

Diseases or illness

  • Rec. healer
  • Healing humans
  • Healing animals
Notes
she was definitely a healer, called a charmer in the record. She cured impotance with a drink. Cured Boneshaw, hart cake, ghost troubles,

Cause of witch's malice

  • no information

Other maleficia

  • Property damage

    • Damage to property

    • Dairy

    weather modification

    • no information

    Notes
    None

    Other charges

    • Superstition
    • Charming
    • Divination
    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, v8 p. 71-75 also in Abbotsford Club Miscellany.