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/1408 Eupham Adair

name of accused
Eupham Adair
designated title
no information
Accused Reference
A/EGD/1394
Case date start
24/4/1661
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)
  • folk healing (secondary characteristic)
  • maleficium (secondary characteristic)
  • not enough information (secondary characteristic)
  • not enough information (primary characteristic)
Characterisation Notes
commission states that she is to confess to demonic pact, renunciation of baptism or malefice but presbytery records no details apart from the first entry which states that her 'crime' was charming rather than witchcraft.

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

  • Charming
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 3rd series, vol 1, p 74. None
Dalkeith Presbytery records CH2/424/4. First mention in presbytery records 24/4/1661, complaints about her sin of charming.Over the next months she either did not appear to answer the charges or her minister was not present. By 29/8/1661 the presbytery notes that she was to be referred to the justice depute for charming. No pagination. By 31/10/1661 Gideon Penman reported that she had confessed witchcraft. 28/11/1661 report that she and Helen Brickinrig (c/egd/1407) were fugitive.
Inveresk Kirk Session records CH2/531/1. Note that she was fugitive from her own parish.