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/882 Jonet Andirsone

name of accused
Jonet Andirsone
designated title
no information
Accused Reference
A/EGD/871
Case date start
27/2/1617
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

  • unorthodox religious practise (secondary characteristic)
  • folk healing (secondary characteristic)
  • folk healing (primary characteristic)
Characterisation Notes
None
additional persons
name involvement notes
no additional persons recorded

Qualitative information

Non-natural beings

Notes
None
  • no information

Demonic pacts

  • no information

witches meetings

Notes
None

Meeting places

  • no information

musical instruments

  • no information

Folk culture

  • Specific Verbal Formulae
  • Specific ritual acts
  • Unorthodox religious practice
Notes
mostly charming with shirts (sarks). Could cure 'the waff of ane ill wind or foirspeiking'. This would be equivalent to removing a bewitchment or a fairy illness. She would be the kind of person someone would go to if they thought a witch was damaging them.

Counter strategies

  • no information

white magic

  • no information

Elf/fairy elements

  • no information

Shape-changing

  • no information

Ritual objects

  • Shirt

Religious motif

  • Prayer
  • Three
  • Sign of the cross

Calendar customs

  • no information

Diseases or illness

  • Rec. healer
  • Healing humans
Notes
None

Cause of witch's malice

  • no information

Other maleficia

Damage to property

  • no information

weather modification

  • no information

Notes
None

Other charges

  • Charming
Notes
None

Plea

Claimed bewitched
no
Claimed possessed
no
Admitted lesser charges
no
No defence
no
Claimed natural causes
no
Notes
None
Case Notes
in 1617 she was called up to the kirk session for charming and admonished. She didn't stop, and was questioned by the presbytery in 1621.
references
name notes
RPC 2nd S, v8 pp. 345-7 The kirk session and presbytery information is from the RPC, nothing was found in the presbytery and the Kirk session materials don't survive.