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/3045 Marjorie Paplay

name of accused
Marjorie Paplay
designated title
no information
Accused Reference
A/JO/2908
Case date start
3/11/1642
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

  • Implicated by another (secondary characteristic)
  • Implicated by others (primary characteristic)
  • not enough information (secondary characteristic)
Characterisation Notes
The accusations about Paplay come from the questioning of another suspect (Barbara Boundie). No details seem to have come from Paplay herself and her son denied all the charges. Bowndie then claimed that she had been encouraged to name other 'honest' women in return for her own life.
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

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
None
references
name notes
Orkney Presbytery Records CH2/1082/1, p 204-5, 207-8, 254, 286, 289-90, 322-3. None