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/LA/2889 Jonet Chrystie

name of accused
Jonet Chrystie
designated title
no information
Accused Reference
A/LA/2771
Case date start
no information
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
She consulted with Reid to destroy David Libbertoun a burgess baxter in Edinburgh. I think Reid was hired to remove a bewitchment, he seemed to be taking off lots of illnesses in the Chrystie household, and guiding the attack on D. Libberton for the Chrysties not himself.
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
Reid prepared an enchanted piece of flesh for her to lay under her enemies stable door.

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
She supposedly wanted to get someone, and used Reid to do it. Reid was a healer, so this may have been somekind of unwitching thing, because lots of members of her family underwent healing rituals from Reid.

Cause of witch's malice

  • no information

Other maleficia

  • Property damage

    • Damage to property

    • Crops
    • Animals

    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
    Books of Adjournal JC2/3 fo. 999v-1002r None