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/2591 Marion Thomson

name of accused
Marion Thomson
designated title
no information
Accused Reference
A/EGD/2499
Case date start
14/5/1643
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
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

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
According to MacDonald, The Witches of Fife, Thomson was accused by Isobel Eizatt 14 May 1643, and that she had had a witchcraft reputation for some time. She was to be tried.
references
name notes
Process Notes JC26/13 Mentioned Bensen, R 'South West Fife and the Scottish Revolution: The Presbytery of Dunfermline, 1633-52' unpublished M.Litt. Dissertation, University of Edinburgh, 1978, Appendix 2, p. 267. (Bensen reference records the date as 1643) The project did not check MacDonald's reference to this printed secondary source as part of the research.