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/2220 Katherine Jones dochter

name of accused
Katherine Jones dochter
designated title
no information
Accused Reference
A/EGD/2159
Case date start
2/10/1616
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

  • demonic (secondary characteristic)
  • folk healing (secondary characteristic)
  • not enough information (secondary characteristic)
  • not enough information (primary characteristic)
Characterisation Notes
She seems to have met with the Devil and Trolls (fairies). Difficult to tell what this one is about.
additional persons
name involvement notes
no additional persons recorded

Qualitative information

Non-natural beings

Notes
He came to her at her mother's house when she was young.
  • Male The bowman of Hildiswick and Eschenes

Demonic pacts

  • Sex
  • Devil's Mark privie member

witches meetings

Notes
None

Meeting places

  • no information

musical instruments

  • no information

Folk culture

  • Elphane or Fairyland
  • Specific ritual acts
  • Sympathetic magic
Notes
The devil supposedly came to her on the calendar custom days listed. The Sea nut is possibly a bean or seed that washed ashore and the hook is called a 'Cleik' The nut brought good luck if carried and the ring of the cleik helped the profit of the milk if it was used for milking. She saw the trowis (trolls) rise out of the kirk yard at Hildiswick and Holiecorss (Holycross) Kirk especially at Yule. Trow is the Orkney and Shetland dialect term for fairies or little people.

Counter strategies

  • no information

white magic

  • no information

Elf/fairy elements

  • Group of fairies

Shape-changing

  • no information

Ritual objects

  • Sea Nut
  • Hook

Religious motif

  • no information

Calendar customs

  • Halloween
  • Holy Cross day
  • Yule

Diseases or illness

  • Human illness
  • Human death
  • Transferring disease
  • Healing humans
Notes
Moved a disease off of her husband to a visiting merchant from Craill.

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
Sheriff Court Book Court Book of Shetland, 1615-1629, ed. Donaldson, p. 38-43 Also Dalyell, J G 'The Darker Supersitions of Scotland' (Edinburgh, 1834), pp. 6, 106, 532. The project did not check Larner's reference to this printed secondary source as part of the research.