Some online resources to research Scottish witchcraft cases:
FindmyPast (www.findmypast.co.uk) added the following collectiona couple of years back:
Scotland, Names of Witches 1658
In
this small but spooky collection, you’ll find details on some of those
accused of witchcraft in early modern Scotland. 1563’s Witchcraft Act
made consorting with witches or taking part in witchcraft a crime
punishable by death in Scotland. Around 1,500 people were executed, most
of them women, until the last Scottish witch trial in 1727.
(Source: Wellcome Collection, Names of the Witches (in Scotland), 1658, MS.3658)
In 2016 Ancestry (www.ancestry.co.uk) previously released the same collection:
Scotland, Names of Witches, 1658
http://search.ancestry.co.uk/search/db.aspx?dbid=61099
Source: Names of Witches in Scotland. Wellcome Library, London, England.
About Scotland, Names of Witches, 1658
The passing of the Scottish Witchcraft Act in 1563 made
witchcraft, or consulting with witches, capital crimes in Scotland. It
is estimated that between three and five thousand women were publicly
accused of being witches in 16th and 17th century Scotland, a much
higher number than neighbouring England. Some men were also accused of
witchcraft during this period, however, the number of women persecuted
was far larger.
The outbreak of witch-hunting in the years 1658-1662, the period
in which this list of names was created, is generally agreed to
represent the high water mark of Scottish persecution.
Within this collection, you will be able to find details of the accused's name and resident town.
There was a bit more on the book's release on Scottish Legal news at https://web.archive.org/web/20161028130410/http://www.scottishlegal.com/2016/10/27/book-listing-those-accused-of-witchcraft-in-17th-century-scotland-digitised/
Don't forget the University of Edinburgh's Survey of Scottish Witchcraft website at http://witches.shca.ed.ac.uk. There is more about this project at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Survey_of_Scottish_Witchcraft
Chris
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