Malcome,Steven
Case Reference: C/EGD/1045
| Case Ref | C/EGD/1045 |
|---|---|
| Accused | Steven Malcome |
| Case Start Date | 20/3/1628 |
| Case Date | 3/7/1628 |
| Common Name | Malcome,Steven |
|---|
| Type | Primary | Secondary |
|---|---|---|
| Unorthodox Religious Practice | — | ✓ |
| Fairies | — | ✓ |
| Folk Healing | ✓ | ✓ |
| Not Enough Info | — | ✓ |
| White Magic | — | ✓ |
Notes: Seems to have been a recognised healer as people from several parishes described how he had healed their sicknesses, including St Ninian's, Logie, Kippen and Gargunnock.
| Elphane/Fairyland | ✓ |
|---|---|
| Food/Drink | — |
| Verbal Formulae | ✓ |
| Ritual Acts | ✓ |
| Familiars | — |
| Shape Changing | — |
|---|---|
| Dreams/Visions | — |
| Unorthodox Religious Practice | ✓ |
| Sympathetic Magic | ✓ |
| Riding Dead | — |
Notes: Described several rituals for healing, which he claimed he had learned from the fairy folk. They had appeared to him in several forms at several different places. Used water (south running) to heal. Would charm sarks with water and words. Carried a sick child over a dyke to cure it. Told a father his child had taken a 'fray in the night'. Told to take it outside at 11 or 12 o'clock, lay his hands on the child and shake his drawn sword over it, as the fairies would not come when they saw a drawn sword. Identified where a woman got sick and told her to go there and seek her health in God's name.
Elf/Fairy Elements
- Group of fairies
- Changeling
- Iron
Ritual Objects
- Water
- Stones
- Bread
- Cheese
- Sword
- Fire
- Shirt
Religious Motifs
- Prayer
- Trinity
Harm
| Human Illness | — |
|---|---|
| Human Death | — |
| Animal Illness | — |
| Animal Death | — |
| Female Infertility | — |
| Male Impotence | — |
Methods
| Aggravating Disease | — |
|---|---|
| Transferring Disease | — |
| Laying On | — |
| Quarreling | — |
| Cursing | — |
| Poisoning | — |
Healing / Other
| Removal of Bewitchment | ✓ |
|---|---|
| Recognised Healer | ✓ |
| Healing Humans | ✓ |
| Healing Animals | ✓ |
| Midwifery | — |
| Property Damage | — |
| Weather Modification | — |
White Magic
- Divination
- Charming
Notes: The details in the presbytery records are all about charming. Witchcraft is not mentioned.
| Name | Title | Involvement | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Thomas Crystie | Elder | ||
| David Leishman | elder | Elder | |
| Henry Shaw | Mr | Investigator | |
| Malcolm Taylor | Investigator |
| Source | Reference | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| RPC | 2nd S, v1 p. 353 | |
| Stirling Presbytery records | CH2/722/5, pp. 18-28. |
| Trial Ref | Date | Year | Verdict | Sentence | Execution |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| T/LA/488 | No |