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/1825 Margaret Ogg

name of accused
Margaret Ogg
designated title
no information
Accused Reference
A/EGD/1799
Case date start
28/2/1650
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)
  • folk healing (secondary characteristic)
  • maleficium (secondary characteristic)
  • not enough information (secondary characteristic)
  • not enough information (primary characteristic)
Characterisation Notes
None

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

  • Specific Verbal Formulae
  • Unorthodox religious practice
Notes
Appears to have prayed to God and Our Lady, three times, to help labour pains.

Counter strategies

  • no information

white magic

  • no information

Elf/fairy elements

  • no information

Shape-changing

  • no information

Ritual objects

  • no information

Religious motif

  • Prayer
  • Three

Calendar customs

  • no information

Diseases or illness

  • Human illness
  • Transferring disease
  • Healing humans
  • Midwifery
Notes
Appears to have been accused of transferring labour pains (travailling) to another woman, who then took ill.

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
Garioch Presbytery records CH2/166/1. Davidson 'Inverurie and the Earldom of Garioch' Edinburgh, 1878, pp. 306-307. The project did not check this secondary reference. No pagination - use dates.