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/56 Jonet Grant

name of accused
Jonet Grant (alias Gradoch)
designated title
no information
Accused Reference
A/EGD/45
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

  • maleficium (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
Raising the Devil
  • no information

Demonic pacts

  • no information

witches meetings

Notes
None

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

  • Human death
  • Animal death
Notes
Destroyed the wife and kids of a man she committed adultery with. Went to a bog in Cultis to heal herself. She 'witched' people to death=bewitchment. Lots of slaughter, incuding a young laird

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
Mentioned in a process note about Achinleck and Leslie. Same people involved in her trial as theirs. Charged with adultery previously.
references
name notes
Pitcairn v I, part II, page 206 nearly same text as JC2/2
Spalding Club Miscellany Vol I, p 140-4. None
Books of Adjournal JC2/2 f. 181v-182r listed in High Court Record Index, no.1, 22/7/1590.
Process Notes JC26/2 in index to JC26/1-7 in the NAS.
Process Notes JC26/2 Witchcraft bundle item 30 None
Process Notes JC26/2 witchcraft bundle, item 29 None
Process Notes JC26/2 witchcraft bundle, item 26 summonds
High Court Minute Books JC6/3 no pagination - 17/8/1590
Witchcraft Papers JC40/2-3 None