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/1904 Geilles Robertsone

name of accused
Geilles Robertsone
designated title
no information
Accused Reference
A/EGD/1869
Case date start
21/7/1675
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

  • not enough information (secondary characteristic)
  • not enough information (primary characteristic)
Characterisation Notes
No details from confession and minutes very difficult to read. May have involved folk healing and/or maleficium.

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
Accusations very difficult to read but may have been involved in healing or causing the sister of her daughter-in-law to get sick.

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
St Andrews Presbytery records CH2/1132/ 1656-87, ff 170-173. See also Gilmore thesis. 'Witchcraft and the Church in Scotland' Glasgow, 1948, p. 138. The project did not check this secondary reference. The presbytery volume has no NAS catalogue number yet.