Reoch,Elspeth

She claimsed she was made dumb by a non-natural being who the prosecutors called the devil. Two men visited her by a loch side and told her how to get second sight. Two years later she was delivering a baby and the black man appeared again, he told her he was a fairy and a kinsman. He pressured her to have sex with him. After this she lost the power of speech. Her brother beat her to try to get her to speak, they prayed for her at the kirk three sundays - nothing worked. She made a trade of her second sight.

Type	Text
Sex

Devil Appearances

Type	Text
Male	in black
Male	in green tartan
Male Fairy	who was her kinsman

Notes: Two men she met at a loch told her to take an egg and roast it and use the sweat of it to wash her hands, and then to rub her eyes with unwashed hands to get the sight of anything she should want to know. [Possible allusion to one of the miracles of Christ when he spits in the dirt and washes a blind man's eyes and he can see?]. The black man at the loch turned out to be a fairy man who was also a dead kinsmen of hers. He came to her when she was in childbirth. She also seemed to know things abour herbs (specifically Merefow (?) to cause a nose bleed).

Elf/Fairy Elements

• Male fairy (elf)
• Green

Ritual Objects

• Egg
• Herb

• Yule

Source	Reference	Notes
Lawting Sheriff and Justice Court	Acts and Statutes of the Lawting Sheriff and Justic Courts of Orkney and Shetland, p. 51-55	See also extracts from Maitland Club Miscellany, vol II, part I (1840). The whole volume seems to have pages 181-191 (? Check this).