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/2932 John Dixson

name of accused
John Dixson
designated title
no information
Accused Reference
A/LA/2804
Case date start
13/2/1591
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

  • not enough information (secondary characteristic)
  • not enough information (primary characteristic)
Characterisation Notes
None
additional persons
name involvement notes
John Selby Investigator

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

  • Human death
Notes
accused of killing his father

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
a note in a letter from Robert Bowes to Burghley (13/2/1591). A second mention of him in another letter from Bowes to Burghley (23/2/1591). Yet a third mention in letter of the same people (24/3/1591). He has still not been handed over. I have not selected a trial type since he was out of the country.
references
name notes
Calendar of State Papers Relating to Scotland v. 10, p. 460, 471, 487 King demands him returned from ward in England to Scotland.