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/2897 Marioun Linkup

name of accused
Marioun Linkup
designated title
no information
Accused Reference
A/LA/2779
Case date start
26/12/1590
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)
  • not enough information (secondary characteristic)
  • not enough information (primary characteristic)
Characterisation Notes
Part of the North Berwick witch hunt. It involved many people and many accustions about witches meetings, specifically two separate attempts to sink the royal ships. The first to sink Queen Anne on her way home, second to trouble King James after he went to get her in Denmark.
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
Said by others to have been at a meeting on the ship which was like a party at sea with good wine and ale. She was supposedly part of the conspiracy treason plot, planned the first assault against the Queen's ship. She was in charge of a letter and some cat rituals to raise wind. Attended a meeting at the saltpans.

Meeting places

  • no information

musical instruments

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Folk culture

Notes
Said to have used a cat in rituals.

Counter strategies

  • no information

white magic

  • no information

Elf/fairy elements

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Shape-changing

  • no information

Ritual objects

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Religious motif

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Calendar customs

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Diseases or illness

Notes
None

Cause of witch's malice

  • no information

Other maleficia

Damage to property

  • no information

weather modification

  • no information

Notes
Said to have been involved in trying to raise winds and storms to sink the royal ships.

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
Pitcairn v I, Part ii, page 209-213 same text as JC2/2
Books of Adjournal JC2/2 fos. 201r-207r None