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/2210 Catherine Caray

name of accused
Catherine Caray
designated title
no information
Accused Reference
A/EGD/2149
Case date start
3/6/1616
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)
  • not enough information (secondary characteristic)
  • not enough information (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
  • Specific ritual acts
  • Unorthodox religious practice
  • Sympathetic magic
Notes
She used a thread and gave it in the name of the father, son and holy ghost and said 'bone to bone, synnew to synnew, and flesche to flesche, and bluid to bluid' to cure man or beast. Took earth and stone from where a man was slain to cure ulcer. Used stones to diagnos and cure spirit illnesses.

Counter strategies

  • no information

white magic

  • no information

Elf/fairy elements

  • no information

Shape-changing

  • no information

Ritual objects

  • Thread
  • Stones
  • Earth

Religious motif

  • Trinity

Calendar customs

  • no information

Diseases or illness

  • Healing humans
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
Marwick Collection D31/4/3 His notes on primary documents that aren't held in Orkney. Dalyell, J G 'The Darker Superstitions of Scotland' (Edinburgh, 1834), pp. 118, 126 & 536. The project did not check Larner's reference to this printed secondary source as part of the research.