Lucas,Jonat
Case Reference: C/EGD/2161
| Case Ref | C/EGD/2161 |
|---|---|
| Accused | Jonat Lucas |
| Case Start Date | 4/4/1597 |
| Case Date | 24/4/1597 |
| Common Name | Lucas,Jonat |
|---|
| Type | Primary | Secondary |
|---|---|---|
| Demonic | — | ✓ |
| Folk Healing | ✓ | ✓ |
| Implicated by Another | — | ✓ |
| White Magic | — | ✓ |
Notes: Appears to have been implicated by Margaret Bane. The other accusations relate to her use of healing charms, and that she caused walls to shake and the devil appear in a man's sleep.
| Elphane/Fairyland | — |
|---|---|
| Food/Drink | — |
| Verbal Formulae | — |
| Ritual Acts | ✓ |
| Familiars | — |
| Shape Changing | — |
|---|---|
| Dreams/Visions | — |
| Unorthodox Religious Practice | — |
| Sympathetic Magic | ✓ |
| Riding Dead | — |
Notes: Most of the dittay refers to her use of threads (coloured and cut) to cure illness or to identify the cause and predict outcome. On one occasion she used the thread and told the woman she was not bewitched nor did she have the fevers. The same woman complained that Lucas had made the walls of her house shake, and that Lucas had made the devil appear to her and her husband in the shape of four legged beasts. They claimed that Lucas had told her husband if he had any property that was not his he was to return it to their rightful owners and the Devil would stop appearing.
Ritual Objects
- Thread
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 | — |
White Magic
- Prophesy
- Halloween
| Type | Text |
|---|---|
| Unspecified | invisible instrument |
| Name | Title | Involvement | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| John Irving | Chancellor | ||
| Alexander Jaffry | Confession Witness | ||
| Thomas Leslie | Mr | Sheriff-depute | |
| John Leslie | of Balquhan | Sheriff-depute | |
| Alexander Rutherford | Prosecutor | ||
| John Straughan | Mr | Investigator |
| Source | Reference | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Spalding Club Miscellany | Vol I, pp. 147-9, 153-6, 192. | Records the dittay and sentence. Note by the minister of Kincardine O'Neil about accusations against her. |