Survey of Scottish Witchcraft, 1563 - 1736

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

Case Details

C/EGD/703 Elizabeth Scotland

name of accused: Elizabeth Scotland
designated title: no information
Accused Reference: A/EGD/692
Case date start: 24/11/1679
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
James Gibb	Investigator
James Hamilton	Investigator
John Park	Investigator
Andrew Burnside	Investigator
James Cassillis	Investigator
Thomas Knowes	Investigator
Richard Dalling	Investigator
James Sloss	Investigator
Richard Hardie	Investigator
Robert Mitchell	Investigator
John Heisbit	Investigator
Robert Doun	Investigator

linked trials
name	trial type	link	year	notes
Elizabeth Scotland	Mixed Central/Local Court	T/LA/852	None

Qualitative information

Non-natural beings

Notes: Devil appeared at a dam where a woman had killed herself. He told her he would be a good husband to her.

Male black man with black clothes
Animal Devil black dog
Male cloven feet and cold
Male he called himself Robin

Demonic pacts

Sex cold
Head and foot
Devil's Mark

witches meetings

Witches meeting
Devil present
Dancing

Notes: Meeting at the links after the last harvest. She described the clothes Bessie Gibb's clothing wore to the meeting and said there were 18 people there. She went to the meeting on horseback.

Meeting places

None Links

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. 159r	None
Process Notes JC26/50	None