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/1627 William Scott

name of accused
William Scott
designated title
no information
Accused Reference
A/EGD/1613
Case date start
3/6/1649
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)
  • demonic (primary characteristic)
  • Implicated by another (secondary characteristic)
  • not enough information (secondary characteristic)
Characterisation Notes
None

Qualitative information

Non-natural beings

Notes
Confessed that he met the Devil with Beatrix Watsone 6 years before. Agreed to be his servant in return for gold. Confessed the devil re-baptised him with water.
  • Male in brown clothes

Demonic pacts

  • Servant
  • Want nothing said the devil offered him god
  • Devil's Mark nipped on his chest
  • Head and foot

witches meetings

  • Witches meeting
  • Devil present
Notes
Claimed he met the devil several times but no-one else. Then named Watsone, Bell and Scott as accomplices.

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
Corstorphine Kirk Session records CH2/124/1, p 31, 33-4. None
Committee of Estates PA11/8 fo. 123r. None