Survey of Scottish Witchcraft, 1563 - 1736

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

Case Details

C/EGD/521 Christian Blaik

name of accused: Christian Blaik
designated title: no information
Accused Reference: A/EGD/510
Case date start: 1649
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: Denounced by James Welch.

additional persons
name	involvement	notes
Patrick Cook	Investigator
William Roberton	Investigator
John Hamilton	Investigator
John Clerk	Investigator
Robert Drummond	Investigator
Hector Woods	Investigator
Robert Cockburn	Commissioner
John Hamilton	Commissioner
John MacMorran	Commissioner
George Hepburn	Commissioner
Ninian Henderson	Commissioner
Andrew Rutherford	Commissioner
James Oswald	Commissioner
Thomas Home	Commissioner
Alexander Henderson	Commissioner
Ninian Reid	Commissioner

linked trials
name	trial type	link	year	notes
Christian Blaik	Local Court	T/JO/1800	None
Christian Blaik	Local Court	T/LA/1047	None
Christian Blaik	Mentioned in trial	T/LA/1330	None

Qualitative information

Non-natural beings

Notes: It was claimed she had confessed to pact and renunciation of baptism.

no information

Demonic pacts

Paction
Anti-baptism

witches meetings

Notes: Accused by James Welch of being at a large meeting with the Devil.

Meeting places

no information

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: She was acted against in 1649, no mention of how that process ended. She resurfaced again 1662. Part of the large number of people denounced by James Welch. He was deemed too young to stand trial so he was imprisoned. But his confession and some of his denunciations were taken seriously by the authorities.

references
name	notes
RPC 2nd S, v8 pp. 204-5	None
APS Vol 7, p 196.	None
Process Notes JC26/28 first bundle, item 3	mentioned