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/616 Marion Campbell

name of accused
Marion Campbell
designated title
no information
Accused Reference
A/EGD/605
Case date start
no information
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)
  • 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
He kissed her and he had no breath (the man in green clothes). She denied to any harm
  • Male
  • Male Green Clothes

Demonic pacts

  • Sex
  • Anti-baptism
  • Head and foot
  • Servant
  • New name Coufre

witches meetings

Notes
accused of being at a meeting by another accused witch. She denied the cows burn meeting.

Meeting places

  • Ormiston, Cowsland dean Dam
  • cows burn Burn

musical instruments

  • no information

Folk culture

  • Shape changing
Notes
None

Counter strategies

  • no information

white magic

  • no information

Elf/fairy elements

  • Green

Shape-changing

  • Animal crow

Ritual objects

  • no information

Religious motif

  • no information

Calendar customs

  • no information

Diseases or illness

  • Human death
Notes
Marion Veitch (c/egd/694) said she helped kill her grandson.

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
Books of Adjournal JC2/15 f. 17v None
Books of Adjournal JC2/15 f. 20r None
Process Notes JC26/49 'peaston witches' item 2 None
Process Notes JC26/49 'peaston witches' item 5 None