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/2374 Marion Inglis

name of accused
Marion Inglis
designated title
no information
Accused Reference
A/EGD/2305
Case date start
3/6/1649
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)
  • maleficium (secondary characteristic)
  • Implicated by another (secondary characteristic)
  • neighbourhood dispute (secondary characteristic)
  • neighbourhood dispute (primary characteristic)
Characterisation Notes
Classified as neighbourhood as primary as although there were accusations of both malefice and demonic (mark) they were not very detailed or substantial. The malefice resulted from disputes between accused and others and she did not confess to any relationship with the devil.

Qualitative information

Non-natural beings

Notes
She was searched/pricked by John Kincaid, but does not appear to have confessed to any other features of demonic pact.
  • no information

Demonic pacts

  • Devil's Mark searched for mark

witches meetings

Notes
None

Meeting places

  • no information

musical instruments

  • no information

Folk culture

Notes
None

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

  • Human illness
  • Human death
  • Animal illness
  • Animal death
  • Quarreling
  • Cursing
Notes
Accused of causing sickness and death after quarrels or business disputes. One argument was over wet nursing.

Cause of witch's malice

  • Failed business interaction
  • Debt
  • Revenge

Other maleficia

  • Property damage

    • Damage to property

    • Animals
    • Dairy

    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
    Corstorphine Kirk Session records CH2/124/1. P 31, 36-38. See also C Hallon, A W and J H Stevenson 'The Scotttish Antiquary' or Northern Notes and Queries, Edinburgh, 1888-9, Vol 4 pp. 27-29. The project did not check this secondary reference as part of the research.