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/335 Agnes Thomson

name of accused
Agnes Thomson
designated title
no information
Accused Reference
A/EGD/324
Case date start
29/3/1659
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)
  • Implicated by another (secondary characteristic)
  • not enough information (secondary characteristic)
  • not enough information (primary characteristic)
Characterisation Notes
None

Qualitative information

Non-natural beings

Notes
Devil met her at Dalkeith and Gibbert. On the way home from Edinburgh he was lying in a brown bush at 12pm.
  • Male

Demonic pacts

  • Anti-baptism
  • Head and foot
  • New name Bessie

witches meetings

  • Devil present
Notes
Meeting in a brown bush and she met him while running out of the mill.

Meeting places

  • None Bush

musical instruments

  • no information

Folk culture

  • Elphane or Fairyland
Notes
Meeting in a brown bush at midday 12 noon.

Counter strategies

  • no information

white magic

  • no information

Elf/fairy elements

  • Meeting at 12:00

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
High Court Process Notes JC26/27/2 item 6 denied confession
High Court Process Notes JC26/27 Gilmerton witches item 5 filed incorrectly
High Court Process Notes JC26/27 Gilmerton witches item 10 misfiled
Process Notes JC26/26/5/1 mentioned