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/1841 Unknown Finlayson

name of accused
Unknown Finlayson
designated title
no information
Accused Reference
A/EGD/1814
Case date start
21/3/1650
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

  • maleficium (secondary characteristic)
  • other (secondary characteristic)
  • not enough information (secondary characteristic)
  • not enough information (primary characteristic)
  • other text Sorcery
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

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

  • Animal illness
Notes
Witness claimed that the accused could harm animals and that she agreed not to so because he had threatened to have her burnt.

Cause of witch's malice

  • no information

Other maleficia

Damage to property

  • no information

weather modification

  • no information

Notes
None

Other charges

  • Sorcery
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
Brechin Presbytery records CH2/40/1, f 78r. Larner also gives a reference to Anderson an undergraduate dissertation in St Andrews, which does not cite its primary sources.