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/2194 Margaret Scot

name of accused
Margaret Scot
designated title
no information
Accused Reference
A/EGD/2136
Case date start
12/5/1607
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)
  • folk healing (primary characteristic)
Characterisation Notes
None
additional persons
name involvement notes
no additional persons recorded

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
Used a spoken prayer to stem bleeding.

Counter strategies

  • no information

white magic

  • no information

Elf/fairy elements

  • no information

Shape-changing

  • no information

Ritual objects

  • no information

Religious motif

  • Prayer

Calendar customs

  • no information

Diseases or illness

  • Healing humans
Notes
Questioned what she had done to stop bleeding. Scot told presbytery she only said a prayer and had used neither drinks nor charms.

Cause of witch's malice

  • no information

Other maleficia

Damage to property

  • no information

weather modification

  • no information

Notes
None

Other charges

  • Charming
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 Craig-Brown, T 'History of Selkirkshire' (Edinburgh, 1886), Vol 1, p 180. The project did not check Larner's reference to this printed secondary source as part of the research.
Selkirk Presbytery records CH2/327/1, f40r. This may be the same person mentioned in Craig Brown. Presbytery questioned her about her use of charms or drinks to heal. She had been accused of witchcraft by another woman.