Survey of Scottish Witchcraft, 1563 - 1736

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

Case Details

C/EGD/310 Alleson Fermor

name of accused: Alleson Fermor
designated title: no information
Accused Reference: A/EGD/299
Case date start: 8/2/1659
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)
not enough information (secondary characteristic)
not enough information (primary characteristic)

Characterisation Notes: None

additional persons
name	involvement	notes
Thomas Simmell	Investigator
Robert Home	Investigator
William Manderson	Investigator
Robert Wait	Investigator
Patrick Nisbet	Investigator
Hugh Hay	Investigator
Rayatons Pringle	Investigator

linked trials
name	trial type	link	year	notes
Alleson Fermor	Local Court	T/LA/1624	1659
Alleson Fermor	Mentioned in trial	T/LA/1625	None

Qualitative information

Non-natural beings

Notes: He promised her amends. Devil put his hand on her shoulder and left a pain.

Male grey clothes

Demonic pacts

Paction
Head and foot
Anti-baptism
New name Jonet
Sex

witches meetings

Witches meeting
Devil present
Food and drink
Dancing
Singing

Notes: They danced in a ring. She confessed that she fell and the Devil took her up the hand (Lacost testified about this prior to her confession!). They drank ale and wine that they stole. Meeting around the broadstones at Gallowhop, asked for amends for a man who stole meal. Wanted amends on the English because they took her to the grange and left her there. Devil couldn't help because they were no longer in Scotland. [so did the Devil only have power in Scotland?]

Meeting places

her own Yard
Hallowhop

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: None

references
name	notes
Process Notes JC26/26	Bundle marked 'witchcraft', near the end of the box. During a JP trial but no indication if there was a commission! Also found in the High Court Record Index, no. 1 for 1/3/1659, this index did not distinguish between circuit and high court cases. This list of names was added in the margins with a modern hand, no indication of where the person got the list.