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
Characterisation
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