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/323 Cristian Cranstoun

name of accused
Cristian Cranstoun
designated title
no information
Accused Reference
A/EGD/312
Case date start
4/4/1659
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)
  • folk healing (secondary characteristic)
  • folk healing (primary characteristic)
  • Implicated by another (secondary characteristic)
Characterisation Notes
None

Qualitative information

Non-natural beings

Notes
He appeared uglier and bigger each time she saw him. He came in through a locked door at midnight.
  • Male in green clothes

Demonic pacts

  • Sex
  • Devil's Mark

witches meetings

Notes
She saw the Devil with a group of people while she was gathering snails in the morning. Doesn't seem like a witches' meeting.

Meeting places

  • no information

musical instruments

  • no information

Folk culture

  • Elphane or Fairyland
  • Specific ritual acts
Notes
She used Foxtree leaves and told people to ask for their health from a suspected witch for God's sake. Used south running water

Counter strategies

  • Appeasement

white magic

  • no information

Elf/fairy elements

  • Green
  • 12:00

Shape-changing

  • no information

Ritual objects

  • Herb
  • Water

Religious motif

  • no information

Calendar customs

  • no information

Diseases or illness

  • Healing humans
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 JC26/26/5/1 Also found in the High Court Record Index, no. 1 for 3/5/1659, 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. I found no indication of where or whether this person was tried. Listed with others from JC26/26/5/1.
Process Notes JC26/26/5/2 mentioned