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/345 Jonet Thomson

name of accused
Jonet Thomson
designated title
no information
Accused Reference
A/EGD/334
Case date start
27/4/1659
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

  • unorthodox religious practise (secondary characteristic)
  • 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
He changed from a cow to a man in green clothes.
  • Animal Devil as a cow
  • Male green clothes

Demonic pacts

  • Devil's Mark they found three
  • Sex
  • Anti-baptism

witches meetings

  • Witches meeting
Notes
There were about 10 or 11 other people at the Deane, but she couldn't see them.

Meeting places

  • The Stone Well Dam
  • between Tranent and Seaton Green

musical instruments

  • no information

Folk culture

  • Elphane or Fairyland
  • Unorthodox religious practice
Notes
A woman took her to the Deane, a place called the stone well.

Counter strategies

  • no information

white magic

  • no information

Elf/fairy elements

  • Green
  • Well

Shape-changing

  • no information

Ritual objects

  • no information

Religious motif

  • Holy well

Calendar customs

  • Whitsunday

Diseases or illness

  • Cursing
Notes
Confessed to being a frequent curser and blasphemer of her husband and children. Witnesses testified to this.

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
Process Notes JC26/26/5/4 letter from the Earl of Cassillis to the kirk session
Process Notes JC26/26/5/5 None