The flying details come from confessions or accusations recorded by others, and the database marks Lockie and Paterson as implicated by another person, so these are stories told about the women and not necessarily by them. Meetings with the devil as a black man and flights on animals or trees are stock features of Scottish witch trial testimony from this period. The database cites the Register of the Privy Council for several of the entries. The women's names are given in modern spellings.
Witchcraft
The Carnwath Witch Cases of 1644 and 1645
Carnwath
August 1644 to December 1644
- Evidence
- Contemporary written record
- Access
- Access unrecorded
- Location
- 55.700, -3.627 (Sited to the village)
Sources: Survey of Scottish Witchcraft, case C/EGD/1306 (Janet Lockie) [other]; Survey of Scottish Witchcraft, case C/EGD/1308 (Margaret Watson) [other]; Survey of Scottish Witchcraft, case C/EGD/1309 (Margaret Reid) [other]
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