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/2282 Katherine Mitchell

name of accused
Katherine Mitchell
designated title
no information
Accused Reference
A/EGD/2217
Case date start
5/1642
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

  • Implicated by another (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
Burghe said they were in the Kirkyards and dug up corpses.

Meeting places

  • no information

musical instruments

  • no information

Folk culture

Notes
Burghe said corpse flesh was put above the byre and stable doors in order to destroy the goods and cattle.

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
SJC v3, p. 601-602 See also J G Dalyell 'Darker Superstitions of Scotland' Edinburgh, 1834, p. 671. The project did not check Larner's reference to this printed secondary source as part of the research