(Q112972577)

English

witchcraft investigation of Margaret Watson

the historical event recorded in the 16th-18th century Scotland

  • Case of Margaret Watson

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She was investigated at the same time as the Ratter family, and appears to have been unpopular because she asked for charity.Asked if she was a witch, but denied accusation. Was refused lodgings, later the woman of the house took bad dreams and was out of her wits. Watson agreed that she cursed people if they wronged her.Accused was charged as being a 'deluder and abuser of the people', in 1708. In 1725 the steward found nothing that would infer the crime of witchcraft but that she was a deluder of the people and he intended to proceed against her. (English)

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