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/693 Margaret Dods

name of accused
Margaret Dods
designated title
no information
Accused Reference
A/EGD/682
Case date start
13/9/1678
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
James Pringle None
William Baillie None
Adam Cockburn None
William Cuningham None
David Hepburn None
George Cockburn None
Robert Cockburn None
William Borthwick None
John Belshes None
John Sinclair None
James Calderwood Investigator
Robert Spottiswoode None
James Cockburn Investigator
George Moodie Investigator
James Grierson None
William Cockburn Investigator
James Liddell Investigator
John Adamson Investigator
William Simpson Investigator
James Yule Investigator
Alexander Ramsay Investigator
John Makmath Investigator

Qualitative information

Non-natural beings

Notes
She could only manage to put her hand as low as her knee for the 'head and foot'. His nature was cold and he had no breath.
  • Male

Demonic pacts

  • Anti-baptism
  • Head and foot
  • Sex

witches meetings

  • Witches meeting
  • Devil present
  • Dancing
Notes
None

Meeting places

  • Murrais burne Burn
  • own house between bed and fire House
  • Templehall burne Burn

musical instruments

  • Pipe

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 ff. 17v-19v None
RPC 3rd series, vol 6, pp 627-629. Records the warrant for execution and also the financial costs of the legal process and the execution itself.
Process Notes JC26/49 assize notes
Process Notes JC26/49 'peaston witches' None