trial of Mary Cunningham

Scottish witch trial

Wikidata entity: Q43403085



P1595 charge ... Q259745 (witchcraft) witchcraft
P17 country ... Q145 (United Kingdom) United Kingdom
P1591 defendant ... Q43392224 (Mary Cunningham) Mary Cunningham
P1593 defender ... Q43913205 (David Williamson) David Williamson
P1922 first line Monolingualtext Pretrial notes: She was ordered to pay for her imprisonment in Culross, and her transportation to Edinburgh/Canongate. She managed to get someone to authorise her release on caution and the charges seem to have dropped for over a year. 4/2/1645 the commissioners tried to reactivate her case under the lord advocate. A rather harrowing description of how they were investigated and treated in prison. ???
P31 instance of ... Q19902850 (witch trial) witch trial
P31 instance of ... Q112765848 (local trial) local trial
P7160 manner of inhumane treatment ... Q111398574 (shackles) shackles
P7209 ordeal by ... Q66424109 (devil's mark searching) devil's mark searching
P2632 place of detention ... Q2424554 (Culross) Culross
P2632 place of detention ... Q64947484 (Canongate) Canongate
P585 point in time ... 1644-09-07 ???
P1592 prosecutor ... Q43913218 (David Moir) David Moir
P7081 quotation or excerpt Monolingualtext Trial notes: It is difficult to determine exactly what happened. She appears to have been tried in Culross, then moved to Edinburgh where the Lord Advocate maybe oversaw her trial. ???
P793 significant event ... Q40745 (trial by ordeal) trial by ordeal
P793 significant event ... Q836925 (complaint) complaint
P793 significant event ... Q841236 (imprisonment) imprisonment
P793 significant event ... Q132781 (torture) torture
P793 significant event ... Q5152683 (commission of justiciary) commission of justiciary
P11922 verdict ... Q2920228 (not proven) not proven

External Ids
P4532Survey of Scottish Witchcraft - Trial IDT/LA/1075

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