Griersoune,Issobel
Case Reference: C/EGD/141
| Case Ref | C/EGD/141 |
|---|---|
| Accused | Issobel Griersoune |
| Case Start Date | 10/3/1607 |
| Case Date | 10/3/1607 |
| Common Name | Griersoune,Issobel |
|---|
| Type | Primary | Secondary |
|---|---|---|
| Demonic | — | ✓ |
| Folk Healing | — | ✓ |
| Maleficium | — | ✓ |
| Neighbourhood Dispute | ✓ | ✓ |
Notes: She was described by all the accusers of having an evil will and malice against the victims. There were disputes over debt and other neighbourhood issues.
| Elphane/Fairyland | — |
|---|---|
| Food/Drink | — |
| Verbal Formulae | — |
| Ritual Acts | ✓ |
| Familiars | — |
| Shape Changing | ✓ |
|---|---|
| Dreams/Visions | — |
| Unorthodox Religious Practice | — |
| Sympathetic Magic | ✓ |
| Riding Dead | — |
Notes: Peole made up with her over drinks, and a strange poor woman turned up asking for meat, and announced that the accuser was bewitched. I read her as a community healer who diagnosed the situation, but the accuser was either hiding the fact that they hired her or hiding her identity.
Shape Changing
| Type | Details |
|---|---|
| Spirit |
Ritual Objects
- Flesh
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: She 'pisched upon Margaret' when in spirit form. She engaged in colourful cursing. One man was in debt to her, she cursed him - he remembered this when he was sick. He paid the debt asked for help for his sickness three times and recovered.
Other Maleficia Notes: The last item involved a sickness that was removed by drinking ale, then recast with loads of curses when the cured woman called her a witch in public. There were also a couple of instances of appeasement.
Property Damage Types
- Ale
- Debt
- Revenge for being called a witch
- Appeasement
- Community Healer
| Source | Reference | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Books of Adjournal | JC2/4 fo. 174r-176v | Also found in the High Court Record Index, no. 1 for 20/1/1607 |
| Pitcairn | v ii, p. 523-526 | Same text as JC2/4 |
| Trial Ref | Date | Year | Verdict | Sentence | Execution |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| T/LA/49 | 10/3/1607 | 1607 | Guilty | Execution | Yes |