Frasser,Helene
Case Reference: C/EGD/2150
| Case Ref | C/EGD/2150 |
|---|---|
| Accused | Helene Frasser |
| Case Start Date | 2/2/1597 |
| Case Date | 25/4/1597 |
| Common Name | Frasser,Helene |
|---|
| Type | Primary | Secondary |
|---|---|---|
| Unorthodox Religious Practice | — | ✓ |
| Demonic | — | ✓ |
| Folk Healing | — | ✓ |
| Maleficium | ✓ | ✓ |
| Implicated by Another | — | ✓ |
| White Magic | — | ✓ |
| Elphane/Fairyland | — |
|---|---|
| Food/Drink | — |
| Verbal Formulae | ✓ |
| Ritual Acts | ✓ |
| Familiars | — |
| Shape Changing | — |
|---|---|
| Dreams/Visions | — |
| Unorthodox Religious Practice | ✓ |
| Sympathetic Magic | ✓ |
| Riding Dead | — |
Notes: Frasser claimed that in order to povide for herself and her children she had pretended to have knowledge and skills, for which people consulted her. ?professional healer. Got paid in kind (salmon) for helping ensure a good catch. Told a man to eat sourrackis (wood sorrel) and lavery kale and to expose his chest to the air as birds flew by because it was 'werrie profitable to lousse his harte pypis, qihilk were closit'. Also spoke verses three times.
Ritual Objects
- Cloth
- Fire
- Crook
- Herb
Religious Motifs
- Prayer
- 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: Appears to have been requested to heal but also to cause harm. Helped salmon fishers increase their catch, prevented further deaths of hens, cured humans. Suspected of making men change their affections from one woman to another. Also caused madness.
Property Damage Types
- Dairy
White Magic
- Love magic
| Name | Title | Involvement | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Alexander Cullen | Mr | Prosecutor | |
| Patrick Findlay | of Newburgh | Investigator | |
| Thomas Leslie | Mr | Prosecutor | |
| James Menzies | of Foveran | Investigator | |
| Malie Skene | Witchcraft acquired from | ||
| Thomas Tilideff | Mr | Minister | |
| Alexander Udnye | of Auchlown | Chancellor |
| Source | Reference | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Spalding Club Miscellany | Vol I, pp. 105-110. | |
| Spalding Club Miscellany | Vol V, p 68. | Accounts for her execution. |
| Trial Ref | Date | Year | Verdict | Sentence | Execution |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| T/JO/203 | 21/4/1597 | 1597 | Guilty | Execution | Yes |