Ogg,Margaret

Case Reference: C/EGD/1825

Case Summary
Case RefC/EGD/1825
AccusedMargaret Ogg
Case Start Date28/2/1650
Case Date12/3/1650
Common NameOgg,Margaret
Characterisation
TypePrimarySecondary
Unorthodox Religious Practice — ✓
Folk Healing — ✓
Maleficium — ✓
Not Enough Info ✓ ✓

Elphane/Fairyland—
Food/Drink—
Verbal Formulae✓
Ritual Acts—
Familiars—
Shape Changing—
Dreams/Visions—
Unorthodox Religious Practice✓
Sympathetic Magic—
Riding Dead—

Notes: Appears to have prayed to God and Our Lady, three times, to help labour pains.

Religious Motifs
  • Prayer
  • Three

Harm
Human Illness✓
Human Death—
Animal Illness—
Animal Death—
Female Infertility—
Male Impotence—
Methods
Aggravating Disease—
Transferring Disease✓
Laying On—
Quarreling—
Cursing—
Poisoning—
Healing / Other
Removal of Bewitchment—
Recognised Healer—
Healing Humans✓
Healing Animals—
Midwifery✓
Property Damage—
Weather Modification—

Disease Notes: Appears to have been accused of transferring labour pains (travailling) to another woman, who then took ill.

NameTitleInvolvementNotes
Robert Cheyne MrInvestigatorRuling elder
Alexander Erskine Laird of PittodrieInvestigatorRuling elder
John Gellie Mr the youngerInvestigator?ordinary elder
George Mill MrInvestigator?ordinary elder
James Ogilvie InvestigatorRuling elder
Arthur Orr MrInvestigator?ordinary elder
Alexander Ross MrInvestigator
Alexander Strachan MrInvestigator?ordinary elder

SourceReferenceNotes
Garioch Presbytery recordsCH2/166/1.Davidson 'Inverurie and the Earldom of Garioch' Edinburgh, 1878, pp. 306-307. The project did not check this secondary reference. No pagination - use dates.
Trials (1)
Trial RefDateYearVerdictSentenceExecution
T/JO/1257 No