Cragie,Katherine
Case Reference: C/EGD/1278
| Case Ref | C/EGD/1278 |
|---|---|
| Accused | Katherine Cragie |
| Case Start Date | 17/6/1640 |
| Case Date | 22/7/1643 |
| Common Name | Cragie,Katherine |
|---|
| Type | Primary | Secondary |
|---|---|---|
| Unorthodox Religious Practice | — | ✓ |
| Folk Healing | ✓ | ✓ |
| Maleficium | — | ✓ |
| White Magic | — | ✓ |
Notes: interesting case, two dittays survive in the RPC and she had a unique way of diagnosing disease by discovering which spirit was 'lying upon' her victim and then curing it with the usual stones in water.
| Elphane/Fairyland | — |
|---|---|
| Food/Drink | — |
| Verbal Formulae | — |
| Ritual Acts | ✓ |
| Familiars | — |
| Shape Changing | — |
|---|---|
| Dreams/Visions | — |
| Unorthodox Religious Practice | ✓ |
| Sympathetic Magic | ✓ |
| Riding Dead | — |
Notes: She pronounced an illness was due to Kirk spirits. She put hot stones on the threshold and then into water and used the water to wash a sick person to get rid of the Kirk spirits. Did the ritual three times. She was seen doing things around a loch. Said she could get someone's husband home from sea through a storm. She was accused of divining the future of when people would die and whether or not they would recover. She also caused an illness by placing a bundle of grasses with a woman's spinning.
Ritual Objects
- Stones
- Water
- Herb
- Cloth
Religious Motifs
- Three
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 | — |
Disease Notes: Caused a huge boil to disfigure a woman's face after she told people about her healing techniques.
White Magic
- Protective
- Love magic
- Prophesy
- Revenge
- Superstition
- Divination
| Name | Title | Involvement | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| William Dick | Sir of Braid | Investigator |
| Source | Reference | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| RPC | 2nd S, v7 pp. 474-477 | its in the miscellaneous papers section and it references a trial held in Kirkwall. Also in Abbotsford Club Misc. p. 32-48. |
| RPC | 2nd S, v8 p. 63, 64, 65-70 | summoning of witnesses for the trial, depositions and dittay. The dittay added some charges from the v7 version. |