Maguate,Marion

Case Reference: C/EGD/2471

Case Summary
Case RefC/EGD/2471
AccusedMarion Maguate
Case Start Date14/5/1640
Case Date20/7/1642
Age at Case50
Common NameMaguate,Marion
Characterization
TypePrimarySecondary
Unorthodox Religious Practice
Folk Healing
Not Enough Info

Elphane/Fairyland
Food/Drink
Verbal Formulae
Ritual Acts
Familiars
Shape Changing
Dreams/Visions
Unorthodox Religious Practice
Sympathetic Magic
Riding Dead
Ritual Objects
  • Axe
Religious Motifs
  • Prayer

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: Asked to heal a cow and mare.

  • Charming

NameTitleInvolvementNotes
Archibald Angus Earl of AngusInvestigatorto be contacted in order to get commission
George Bennet MrInvestigator
William Carmichael SirInvestigatorto be contacted in order to get commission
John Currie MrInvestigator
James Douglas MrInvestigator
Robert Elliot MrInvestigator
Hamilton Laird of HamiltonInvestigatorto be contacted in order to get commission
David Murray Sir of StanhopeInvestigatorheard confession

SourceReferenceNotes
Lanark Presbytery RecordsCH2/234/1.See also J Robertson 'Selections from the Register of the Presbytery of Lanark' Edinburgh, 1839, p 20. The project did not check Larner's reference to this printed secondary source as part of the research. Accused was from Coulter, which was in Biggar presbytery but the details were recorded in the Lanark presbytery records.
Trials (1)
Trial RefDateYearVerdictSentenceExecution
T/JO/1109 No