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/382 Marjory Wilson

name of accused
Marjory Wilson
designated title
no information
Accused Reference
A/EGD/371
Case date start
18/7/1661
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)
  • demonic (primary characteristic)
  • Implicated by another (secondary characteristic)
Characterisation Notes
None

Qualitative information

Non-natural beings

Notes
This same information is in the JC2 and JC26/27/9 item 5.
  • Male a man in black clothes with a black hat

Demonic pacts

  • Anti-baptism
  • Devil's Mark
  • New name Trotter
  • Devil's Mark shoulder
  • Devil's Mark left arm
  • Sex
  • Servant

witches meetings

  • Witches meeting
  • Devil present
  • Dancing
Notes
None

Meeting places

  • Causland dam Dam
  • back of Dalkeith yards Yard
  • Millgreen of Dalkeith Mill

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

  • Sorcery
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
Books of Adjournal JC2/11; JC2/10 fo. 10v-17v JC2/11 and JC2/10 were exactly the same text! Except the sederunt in JC2/10 doesn't say that the trial happened in Dalkeith. Also found in the High Court Record Index, no. 1 for 3/8/1661, 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.
High Court Process Notes JC26/27/9 item 4 draft of JC2 trial
High Court Process Notes JC26/27/9 item 5 notes to draw her dittay
High Court Process Notes JC26/27/9 item 17 None
High Court Process Notes JC26/27/9 item 20 witnesses, bad handwriting, mostly repeat of info in other docs. Seems to be a draft of the books of adjournal text.
High Court Process Notes JC26/27/9 item 22 notes of interrogations