ID | Short Description | Date | City | Parish | Current County | Old county | Nation |
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154 | Elizabeth Anderson recalls how she saw the apparition of a "Black grim Man" approach her grandmother in her house.(9)
Appears in:
P., T.. A Relation of the Diabolical Practices of above Twenty Wizards and Witches of the Sheriffdom of Renfrew in the Kingdom of Scotland. London: 1697, 9
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1697, January | West Central Lowlands | Renfrewshire | Renfrewshire | Scotland | |
155 | Margaret Lang torments a child.(19)
Appears in:
P., T.. A Relation of the Diabolical Practices of above Twenty Wizards and Witches of the Sheriffdom of Renfrew in the Kingdom of Scotland. London: 1697, 19
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1690 | West Central Lowlands | Renfrewshire | Renfrewshire | Scotland | |
156 | Katherine Campbell is sent to prison.(7)
Appears in:
P., T.. A Relation of the Diabolical Practices of above Twenty Wizards and Witches of the Sheriffdom of Renfrew in the Kingdom of Scotland. London: 1697, 7
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1697, February 5 | West Central Lowlands | Renfrewshire | Renfrewshire | Scotland | |
157 | Agnes Nasmith discusses a man who she believes to be the devil.(8)
Appears in:
P., T.. A Relation of the Diabolical Practices of above Twenty Wizards and Witches of the Sheriffdom of Renfrew in the Kingdom of Scotland. London: 1697, 8
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1697, January | West Central Lowlands | Renfrewshire | Renfrewshire | Scotland | |
158 | John Lindsay is accused of playing a pipe as a group of witches danced. The group also allegedly created an image of Mr. John and stabbed it with pins.(18)
Appears in:
P., T.. A Relation of the Diabolical Practices of above Twenty Wizards and Witches of the Sheriffdom of Renfrew in the Kingdom of Scotland. London: 1697, 18
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1690 | West Central Lowlands | Renfrewshire | Renfrewshire | Scotland | |
159 | James Lindsay allegedly causes a girl to have fits by his touch.(6)
Appears in:
P., T.. A Relation of the Diabolical Practices of above Twenty Wizards and Witches of the Sheriffdom of Renfrew in the Kingdom of Scotland. London: 1697, 6
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1697, February 5 | West Central Lowlands | Renfrewshire | Renfrewshire | Scotland | |
160 | Agnes Foster is sent to prison.()
Appears in:
P., T.. A Relation of the Diabolical Practices of above Twenty Wizards and Witches of the Sheriffdom of Renfrew in the Kingdom of Scotland. London: 1697,
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1697, February 5 | West Central Lowlands | Renfrewshire | Renfrewshire | Scotland | |
161 | Margaret Fulton lights a black candle while entering a house to practice witchcraft.(21)
Appears in:
P., T.. A Relation of the Diabolical Practices of above Twenty Wizards and Witches of the Sheriffdom of Renfrew in the Kingdom of Scotland. London: 1697, 21
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1690 | West Central Lowlands | Renfrewshire | Renfrewshire | Scotland | |
488 | Agnes Nasmith is sent to prison for allegedly threatening malefaction.(7)
Appears in:
P., T.. A Relation of the Diabolical Practices of above Twenty Wizards and Witches of the Sheriffdom of Renfrew in the Kingdom of Scotland. London: 1697, 7
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1697 | West Central Lowlands | Renfrewshire | Renfrewshire | Scotland | |
489 | Before a formal trial, commissioners find insensible witch's marks on all the women's bodies (save Margaret Fulton's) but decide to prick them, regardless. (3)
Appears in:
P., T.. A Relation of the Diabolical Practices of above Twenty Wizards and Witches of the Sheriffdom of Renfrew in the Kingdom of Scotland. London: 1697, 3
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1697 | West Central Lowlands | Renfrewshire | Renfrewshire | Scotland | |
799 | Catherine Campbell is imprisoned. Because of this, Catherine Campbell only appears to Christian Shaw when it is known that she is either at liberty to go to church or at the jailer's house.(10)
Appears in:
Cullen, Francis Grant. Sadducimus Debellatus. London: 1698, 10
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1697 | West Central Lowlands | Renfrewshire | Renfrewshire | Scotland | |
1447 | Agnes Foster is executed as a witch by hanging and burning at Paisley on June 10, 1697. She was accused and found guilty of conspiring and meeting with the devil, and contributing to the bewitchment and torment of Christian Shaw. Foster was tried by pricking with a three inch needle, and found to have witchs marks on her body after undergoing a physical examination prior to execution. (3-4)
Appears in:
P., T.. A Relation of the Diabolical Practices of above Twenty Wizards and Witches of the Sheriffdom of Renfrew in the Kingdom of Scotland. London: 1697, 3-4
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1697, June 10 | Paisley | Renfrewshire | Renfrewshire | Scotland | |
1448 | Agnes Nasmith is executed as a witch by hanging and burning at Paisley on June 10, 1697. She was accused and found guilty of conspiring and meeting with the devil, using instrumental magic, and contributing to the bewitchment and torment of Christian Shaw. Nasmith was tried by pricking with a three inch needle, and found to have witchs marks on her body after undergoing a physical examination prior to execution.(3-4)
Appears in:
P., T.. A Relation of the Diabolical Practices of above Twenty Wizards and Witches of the Sheriffdom of Renfrew in the Kingdom of Scotland. London: 1697, 3-4
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1697, June 10 | Paisley | Renfrewshire | Renfrewshire | Scotland |