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/204 Katharine Grieve

name of accused
Katharine Grieve
designated title
no information
Accused Reference
A/EGD/193
Case date start
10/1/1649
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
Another witch called her over to her house to meet the Devil.
  • Male in brown clothes

Demonic pacts

  • Devil's Mark left leg above her knee
  • Servant
  • Sex
  • Anti-baptism

witches meetings

  • Witches meeting
  • Food and drink
  • Dancing
Notes
They drank a pint of ale and had a cake. The Devil drank to her. Confessed to three meetings. She said 'I was bot as ane slave to thame [the other witches at the meeting] and ane outcast'

Meeting places

  • another witch's house House

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
Process Notes JC26/13 None