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/1297 Margaret Young

name of accused
Margaret Young
designated title
no information
Accused Reference
A/EGD/1285
Case date start
1/4/1644
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

  • Implicated by another (secondary characteristic)
  • not enough information (secondary characteristic)
  • not enough information (primary characteristic)
Characterisation Notes
her mother, sister and (?aunt) were all accused of witchcraft, so some sort of family/neighbourhood dispute possible.

Qualitative information

Non-natural beings

Notes
None
  • no information

Demonic pacts

  • no information

witches meetings

Notes
The meeting was not described by Margaret Young but by another accused witch prior to her execution. Christian Melvill (C/EGD/1298) described how Margaret, her mother and her sister met Melvill with the devil and the two girls were given over to the devil by Hill at the burn.

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
None
references
name notes
RPC 2nd series, vol 8, p 109-110 Note that accused had been named by several other witches prior to their exection.
RPC 2nd S, v8 p. 104 None