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/3090 Margrat Cleraucht

name of accused
Margrat Cleraucht
designated title
no information
Accused Reference
A/JO/2951
Case date start
25/4/1597
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

  • consulting (secondary characteristic)
  • maleficium (secondary characteristic)
  • maleficium (primary characteristic)
  • white magic (secondary characteristic)
Characterisation Notes
Accused of malefice after revenge but cleared of charges. Also seems to have consulted Margaret Bane.

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
Predicted or threatened that a man's children would not live, because he would not die. Her prediction came true,

Counter strategies

  • no information

white magic

  • Prophesy

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
Threatened a man that his children would not live, because he would not marry her. Also accused of taking revenge on her previous employer who had taken some of her belongings after she left his house.

Cause of witch's malice

  • Revenge

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
Spalding Club Miscellany Vol I, p 182-3, 190. Absolved of charges.