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/702 Elizabeth Hutcheson

name of accused
Elizabeth Hutcheson
designated title
no information
Accused Reference
A/EGD/691
Case date start
29/11/1678
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

Qualitative information

Non-natural beings

Notes
He promised her pearls and jewels which he showed to her. At first she refused to have sex with him because of her husband. She exchanged words with the Devil 'I am thyne and thow art mine.' He appeared in her shop and dissapeared when people came in.
  • Male as a Gallant young man

Demonic pacts

  • Sex

witches meetings

  • Witches meeting
  • Devil present
Notes
None

Meeting places

  • Bo'ness Links

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 f. 159r, 159v None