Survey of Scottish Witchcraft, 1563 - 1736

Goodare, Julian; Yeoman, Louise; Martin, Lauren; Miller, Joyce

Case Details

C/EGD/1398 Kathrin Huntar

name of accused: Kathrin Huntar
designated title: no information
Accused Reference: A/EGD/1384
Case date start: 12/7/1661
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)
Implicated by another (secondary characteristic)
not enough information (secondary characteristic)
not enough information (primary characteristic)

Characterisation Notes: she seems not to have been tried due to being 'grossely ignorant'.

additional persons
name	involvement	notes
William Murray	Commissioner
John Preston	Commissioner
John Biggar	Commissioner
Patrick Scott	Commissioner
Charles Murray	Commissioner
William Meggat	Commissioner
William Scott	Commissioner
William Scott	Investigator
John Kincaid	Witch-pricker
Thomas Hogg	Investigator
Alexander Dickson	Investigator
John Steven	Investigator
James Calderwood	Confession Witness
William Calderwood	Confession Witness

linked trials
name	trial type	link	year	notes
Kathrin Huntar	Mentioned in trial	T/LA/344	None
Kathrin Huntar	Mixed Central/Local Court	T/LA/413	1661

Qualitative information

Non-natural beings

Notes: She promised to be a good servant

Male

Demonic pacts

Sex
Servant
New name Honey
Anti-baptism
New name heart
Devil's Mark shoulders
Want nothing

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: None

references
name	notes
Books of Adjournal JC2/11; JC2/10 fos. 43v-49r	None
RPC 3rd series, vol 1, p 46.	None
High Court Process Notes JC26/27/9 item 5	None
High Court Process Notes JC26/27/9 item 13	None
High Court Process Notes JC26/27/9 item 16	notes from Scot and Calderwood.