The Survey of Scottish Witchcraft

1563-1736

By Julian Goodare, Lauren Martin, Joyce Miller and Louise Yeoman, January 2003

The Survey of Scottish Witchcraft logo

Case Details

C/EGD/884 Agnes Knox

name of accused
Agnes Knox
designated title
no information
Accused Reference
A/EGD/873
Case date start
28/8/1611
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

  • folk healing (secondary characteristic)
  • not enough information (secondary characteristic)
  • not enough information (primary characteristic)
Characterisation Notes
3 members of same family accused so possibility of some local or family dispute.

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 ritual acts
  • Sympathetic magic
Notes
None

Counter strategies

  • no information

white magic

  • no information

Elf/fairy elements

  • no information

Shape-changing

  • no information

Ritual objects

  • Salt
  • Shirt
  • Water

Religious motif

  • no information

Calendar customs

  • no information

Diseases or illness

  • Healing humans
Notes
details about healing rituals in presby minutes. Requested by Margaret Creightoun (?) to cure her husband.

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
called to appear in sackcloth for profaning the sabbath

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
RPC v11 p. 59 None
Linlithgow presbytery records CH2/242/1, 11r,12 v, 142v, 163r, 166v. Presbytery minutes note that she was investigated for giving healing advice to others 28/8/1611. In 1616 called to make repentance for profaning the sabbath., threatened with excommunication