Survey of Scottish Witchcraft, 1563 - 1736

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

Case Details

C/EGD/620 Janet Burton

name of accused: Janet Burton
designated title: no information
Accused Reference: A/EGD/609
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)
Implicated by another (secondary characteristic)
not enough information (secondary characteristic)
not enough information (primary characteristic)

Characterisation Notes: None

additional persons
name	involvement	notes
Robert Hepburn	Investigator
John Pringle	Investigator
James Calderwood	Investigator
James Cockburn	Investigator
David Chalmer	Investigator
James Yule	Investigator
Malcolm Greive	Investigator
William Sheil	Investigator
John Fowler	Investigator
Richard Dalgleish	Investigator
William Cockburn	Investigator

linked trials
name	trial type	link	year	notes
Janet Burton	Local Court	T/LA/1451	None
Janet Burton	Mentioned in trial	T/LA/826	None

Qualitative information

Non-natural beings

Notes: While she was sleeping, Sarah Cranston woke her and told her that 'it behoved her to speak with a gentleman', he was a black man who took her in his arms and kissed her. She said that Marion Veitch gave her child of one year to the Devil.

Male black man

Demonic pacts

Sex
Servant
New name Saras Drudge
Anti-baptism
Head and foot

witches meetings

Notes: accused of being at two meetings by another accused witch. She said that Sarah Cranston rode a horse to death from riding to and from meetings.

Meeting places

Ward haugh Haugh
Cowe burn Burn
Reidfoord Ford
Ormiston wood Wood
Lint Haugh Haugh
Ward Haugh Haugh

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: None

references
name	notes
Books of Adjournal JC2/15 f. 19r	None
Process Notes JC26/49 'peaston witches' item 3	mentioned
Process Notes JC26/49 'peaston witches' item 4	None