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/782 Jonet Slowane

name of accused
Jonet Slowane
designated title
no information
Accused Reference
A/EGD/771
Case date start
7/10/1651
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)
  • neighbourhood dispute (secondary characteristic)
  • not enough information (secondary characteristic)
  • not enough information (primary characteristic)
Characterisation Notes
she was delated by other witches, not specified in the record. Most of the accusations seem relate to quarrels followed by harm, but the evidence is sketchy.

Qualitative information

Non-natural beings

Notes
delated by witches but doesn't say who.
  • no information

Demonic pacts

  • Servant
  • Devil's Mark

witches meetings

Notes
None

Meeting places

  • no information

musical instruments

  • no information

Folk culture

Notes
Someone asked for their health for God's sake. She diagnosed Colic for her daughter.

Counter strategies

  • Appeasement

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

  • Human illness
  • Quarreling
  • Cursing
Notes
proposed marriage for her daughter, refused, revenge. Neighbour refused to reciprocate ale round, curses, illness. Man refused to cart her herring, threats, illness. Refusal to pay a fee to her daughter, threats, illness.

Cause of witch's malice

  • Revenge
  • Social slight

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
Circuit Court Books JC10/1 fo. 214r, 235r None
Circuit Court Books JC10/1 fo. 254r-254v, 257r None
Process Notes JC26/25 Ayr Court list from 6/4/1658 and dittay in side the roll, and three porteous rolls.
Process Notes JC26/26 Ayr Court roll (skinny one), dittay roll None
Process Notes JC26/26 None
Ayr Council Records (MS in Carnegie Library Ayr) II, p. 80b, 91b None