Survey of Scottish Witchcraft, 1563 - 1736

Goodare, Julian; Yeoman, Louise; Martin, Lauren; Miller, Joyce

Case Details

C/EGD/2361 Janat Cuj

name of accused: Janat Cuj
designated title: no information
Accused Reference: A/EGD/2294
Case date start: 12/11/1646
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

maleficium (secondary characteristic)
maleficium (primary characteristic)
not enough information (secondary characteristic)

Characterisation Notes: None

additional persons
name	involvement	notes
Thomas Law	Investigator
Murdo MacKenzie	Investigator
William Clogie	Investigator
Alexander Symmer	Investigator

linked trials
name	trial type	link	year	notes
Janat Cuj	Local Court	T/JO/1265	None

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

Notes: None

Counter strategies

Appeasement

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

Human illness
Human death
Laying on

Notes: Accusations about causing illness/death after arguments. Deprived a woman of speech, another man died after weeks of fever and weakness. Another woman recovered after she asked for her health back from the accused on her knees.

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
Elgin Presbytery records CH2/144/1, pp 118-121.	See also W Cramond 'The Records of Elgin' Aberdeen, 1903-8, Vol 2 pp. 356-357. The project did not check this secondary reference as part of the research.