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/885 Patrick Rid

name of accused
Patrick Rid
designated title
no information
Accused Reference
A/EGD/874
Case date start
3/4/1616
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

  • not enough information (secondary characteristic)
  • not enough information (primary characteristic)
Characterisation Notes
3 members of same family were accused so possibly some local or family dispute. Also appears to have profaned religious worship.

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

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
called to appear in sackcloth for abusing 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, 142v, 163r, 166v. presbytery notes that he and his family have been accused. Patrick Rid appeared 17/4/1616 and offered his public repentance for ?profaning the sabbath and said that his wife and children were fugitive.