Survey of Scottish Witchcraft, 1563 - 1736

Goodare, Julian; Yeoman, Louise; Martin, Lauren; Miller, Joyce

Case Details

C/EGD/1916 Annaple Thomson

name of accused: Annaple Thomson
designated title: no information
Accused Reference: A/EGD/1881
Case date start: 11/11/1679
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)
maleficium (secondary characteristic)
Implicated by another (secondary characteristic)
not enough information (secondary characteristic)
not enough information (primary characteristic)

Characterisation Notes: Demonic pact and malefice included in details of commission but no other information about confession or accusations.

additional persons
name	involvement	notes
James Cochrane	Commissioner
Richard Elphinstone	Commissioner
None Sandilands	Commissioner
Walter Cornwall	Commissioner
Robert Hamilton	Commissioner
John Harper	Commissioner
William Dundas	Commissioner
John Preston	Commissioner

linked trials
name	trial type	link	year	notes
Annaple Thomson	Local Court	T/JO/603	None
Annaple Thomson	Mentioned in trial	T/LA/1468	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

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
None None	Webster, David 'Collections of Rare and Curious Tracts on Witchcraft and Second Sight' (Edinburgh, 1820), pp. 95-103. The project did not check Larner's reference to this printed secondary source as part of the research.
RPC 3rd series, vol 6, 337.	None