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/2954 Margaret Currie

name of accused
Margaret Currie
designated title
no information
Accused Reference
A/JO/2822
Case date start
21/8/1649
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)
  • not enough information (secondary characteristic)
  • not enough information (primary characteristic)
Characterisation Notes
None

Qualitative information

Non-natural beings

Notes
None
  • no information

Demonic pacts

  • Anti-baptism
  • Servant

witches meetings

  • Witches meeting
  • Devil present
Notes
Note that the accused had confessed to attending meetings with the devil.

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
None

Plea

Claimed bewitched
no
Claimed possessed
no
Admitted lesser charges
no
No defence
no
Claimed natural causes
no
Notes
None
Case Notes
MacDonald 'The Witches of Fife' (East Linton, 2002) p. 109 indicates that she tried to clear her name in 1654 after being investigated in 1649.
references
name notes
Dunfermline Presbytery records CH2/105/1 (a), p 258. None
None None Bensen, R 'South'West Fife and the Scottish Revolution: The Presbytery of Dunfermline, 1633-52' unpublished M.Litt. Dissertation, University of Edinburgh, 1978, Appendix 2, p. 273. The project did not check MacDonald's reference to this printed secondary source as part of the research.