Reid,Christian

Case Reference: C/EGD/2148

Case Summary
Case RefC/EGD/2148
AccusedChristian Reid
Case Start Date15/4/1597
Case Date15/4/1597
Common NameReid,Christian
Characterisation
TypePrimarySecondary
Unorthodox Religious Practice — ✓
Demonic — ✓
Maleficium ✓ ✓

No confession of pact but her dittay implies that that she was in Satan's thrall. Also Christonday mentioned in the verbal prayer to remove bewitchment but Reid did not describe who this was.

Devil Appearances
TypeText
SpiritChristonday

Elphane/Fairyland—
Food/Drink—
Verbal Formulae✓
Ritual Acts✓
Familiars—
Shape Changing—
Dreams/Visions—
Unorthodox Religious Practice✓
Sympathetic Magic✓
Riding Dead—

Notes: Confessed that she offered to remove a bewitchment from a mill. Went to another accused person, Katherine Gerard, who told her to take sand from the north door of the mill and throw it over the wheels and stones in the name of God and Christonday. The mill then started to work again. Also confessed that she and Gerard had met and with a feather had cast the bewitchment on the mill earlier.

Ritual Objects
  • Sand
  • Feathers
Religious Motifs
  • Prayer

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: Confessed to assisting another accused bewitch a mill and then went to the miller and offered to remove the bewitchment in return for reward.

Property Damage Types
  • Mill

NameTitleInvolvementNotes
Hugh Crawford Chancellor
Thomas Leslie MrSheriff-depute
Alexander Rutherford Prosecutor

SourceReferenceNotes
Spalding Club MiscellanyVol I, pp. 173-4, 175-6.
Spalding Club MiscellanyVol V, pp. 67-8.Accounts for execution.
Trials (1)
Trial RefDateYearVerdictSentenceExecution
T/JO/1488 15/4/15971597 GuiltyExecution Yes