Survey of Scottish Witchcraft, 1563 - 1736

Goodare, Julian; Yeoman, Louise; Martin, Lauren; Miller, Joyce

Case Details

C/JO/3159 Elspet Stith

name of accused: Elspet Stith
designated title: no information
Accused Reference: A/JO/3018
Case date start: 1/1/1649
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

maleficium (secondary characteristic)
Implicated by another (secondary characteristic)
not enough information (secondary characteristic)
not enough information (primary characteristic)

Characterisation Notes: None

additional persons
name	involvement	notes
Walter Greig	Investigator

linked trials
name	trial type	link	year	notes
Elspet Stith	Local Court	T/JO/1681	None
Elspet Stith	Mentioned in trial	T/JO/2215	None

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

Animal illness
Cursing

Notes: Accused of causing a cow to stop giving milk

Cause of witch's malice

no information

Other maleficia

Property damage

Damage to property

Dairy

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
Cupar Presbytery records CH2/82/1.	see also Selections from the Minutes of the Synod of Fife, 1611-1687, Edinburgh, 1837 p. 168. The project did not check this secondary reference as part of the research.