The Crawford Witch Accusations of November 1649

The database entries are brief and give little of what was said in court, so the outcome of each case is not recorded here. What the entries do show is a cluster of accusations from one small village in a single day, a pattern typical of pricker-driven panics, and the database itself notes that Coutts and Cathie named a large number of people who were later shown to be innocent. Janet Coutts is covered by a separate record for Peebles. The women's names are given as they appear in the database, in modern spellings.