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/JO/2785 Margaret Unes

name of accused
Margaret Unes
designated title
no information
Accused Reference
A/JO/2678
Case date start
29/7/1628
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)
  • other (secondary characteristic)
  • not enough information (secondary characteristic)
  • not enough information (primary characteristic)
  • other text murder
Characterisation Notes
Demonic pact confessed but the trial extended to include accusations of murder.

Qualitative information

Non-natural beings

Notes
Few details apart from paction confessed. Noted in RPC that accused had confessed to renunciation of baptism.
  • no information

Demonic pacts

  • Paction
  • Anti-baptism

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

  • Human death
Notes
Accusations extended to include death of Earl of Lothian and Lord Borthwick.

Cause of witch's malice

  • no information

Other maleficia

Damage to property

  • no information

weather modification

  • no information

Notes
None

Other charges

  • Murder
Notes
None

Plea

Claimed bewitched
no
Claimed possessed
no
Admitted lesser charges
no
No defence
no
Claimed natural causes
no
Notes
None
Case Notes
Accused with 1 other.
references
name notes
Dalkeith Presbytery records CH2/424/1 9/10/1628, no pagination.
RPC 2nd series, vol 2, p 410, 442, 468-9, 624. Records of commissions and requests for commissions.