Gauld,Mauld
Case Reference: C/EGD/1339
| Case Ref | C/EGD/1339 |
|---|---|
| Accused | Mauld Gauld |
| Case Start Date | 14/7/1649 |
| Case Date | 15/10/1649 |
| Common Name | Gauld,Mauld |
|---|
| Type | Primary | Secondary |
|---|---|---|
| Maleficium | — | ✓ |
| Neighbourhood Dispute | ✓ | ✓ |
| White Magic | — | ✓ |
Notes: This one is a good example of neighbourhood dispute because it has witness depositions about quarrels, curses, harm from the neighbours' point of view. The witnesses against her are craftsmen, burgesses and their wives.
| Elphane/Fairyland | — |
|---|---|
| Food/Drink | — |
| Verbal Formulae | — |
| Ritual Acts | ✓ |
| Familiars | — |
| Shape Changing | — |
|---|---|
| Dreams/Visions | — |
| Unorthodox Religious Practice | — |
| Sympathetic Magic | ✓ |
| Riding Dead | — |
Notes: The victim said he wanted to drink with the supect and then he did drink with suspect and he got better. Her servant said that she had a 'piece of clay formed be hir to the liknes of a mans priwie members doing quhat is abominable to think or speik of'. This was tried in front of the kirk session. She was witnessed spinning a sieve.
Ritual Objects
- Clay
- Sieve
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: A witness desired to drink with her because he feared her evil. She threatened her neighbours and they got sick. Scolding and flyting. She bragged about the malefices 'thair was never ane wrongit her bot sho gat her hart sythit on them'.
Other Maleficia Notes: revenge for a family taking a house over her head.
Property Damage Types
- Ale
White Magic
- Prophesy
- Revenge
- Whitsunday
- Candlemas
- Appeasement
| Name | Title | Involvement | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hew Blair | Mr | Investigator | |
| William Dunlop | Investigator | ||
| James Durham | Mr | Investigator | |
| Hugh Peebles | Mr | Investigator | |
| George Porterfield | Investigator | ||
| George Young | Mr | Investigator |
| Source | Reference | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| RPC | 2nd S. V8 pp. 198-204 |
| Trial Ref | Date | Year | Verdict | Sentence | Execution |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| T/LA/1025 | No |