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/53 Janet Clark

name of accused
Janet Clark (alias Spalding)
designated title
no information
Accused Reference
A/EGD/42
Case date start
12/7/1590
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

  • folk healing (secondary characteristic)
  • maleficium (secondary characteristic)
  • Implicated by another (secondary characteristic)
  • not enough information (secondary characteristic)
  • not enough information (primary characteristic)
Characterisation Notes
None
additional persons
name involvement notes
no additional persons recorded

Qualitative information

Non-natural beings

Notes
None
  • no information

Demonic pacts

  • no information

witches meetings

Notes
None

Meeting places

  • no information

musical instruments

  • no information

Folk culture

  • Specific ritual acts
Notes
South-running well. She supposedly had a kist full of men's secret members made of clay.

Counter strategies

  • no information

white magic

  • no information

Elf/fairy elements

  • no information

Shape-changing

  • no information

Ritual objects

  • Water
  • Wax/clay images

Religious motif

  • no information

Calendar customs

  • no information

Diseases or illness

  • Human death
  • Animal death
  • Male impotence
  • Healing humans
Notes
Made an enchantment for a woman to put in her master's meat.

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 mentioned in a process note about Leslie and Achinleck on 12/7/1590. The same people were involved in the prosecutions.
references
name notes
Pitcairn v I, part ii, page 206 almost same text as JC2/2
Witchcraft Papers JC40/2-3 None
Books of Adjournal JC2/2 fos. 181v-182r None
Process Notes JC26/2 in index to JC26/1-7 in the NAS.
Process Notes JC26/2 witchcraft bundle, item 29 None
Process Notes JC26/2 witchcraft bundle, item 28 None
Process Notes JC26/2 witchcraft bundle, item 26 summonds
High Court Minute Books JC6/3 no pagination - 17/8/1590