Maguate,Marion
Case Reference: C/EGD/2471
Case Summary
| Case Ref | C/EGD/2471 |
|---|---|
| Accused | Marion Maguate |
| Case Start Date | 14/5/1640 |
| Case Date | 20/7/1642 |
| Age at Case | 50 |
| Common Name | Maguate,Marion |
|---|
Characterization
| Type | Primary | Secondary |
|---|---|---|
| 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
| Name | Title | Involvement | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Archibald Angus | Earl of Angus | Investigator | to be contacted in order to get commission |
| George Bennet | Mr | Investigator | |
| William Carmichael | Sir | Investigator | to be contacted in order to get commission |
| John Currie | Mr | Investigator | |
| James Douglas | Mr | Investigator | |
| Robert Elliot | Mr | Investigator | |
| Hamilton | Laird of Hamilton | Investigator | to be contacted in order to get commission |
| David Murray | Sir of Stanhope | Investigator | heard confession |
| Source | Reference | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Lanark Presbytery Records | CH2/234/1. | 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 Ref | Date | Year | Verdict | Sentence | Execution |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| T/JO/1109 | No |