Jones dochter,Katherine
Case Reference: C/EGD/2220
| Case Ref | C/EGD/2220 |
|---|---|
| Accused | Katherine Jones dochter |
| Case Start Date | 2/10/1616 |
| Case Date | 2/10/1616 |
| Age at Case | 50 |
| Common Name | Jones dochter,Katherine |
|---|
| Type | Primary | Secondary |
|---|---|---|
| Demonic | — | ✓ |
| Fairies | — | ✓ |
| Folk Healing | — | ✓ |
| Not Enough Info | ✓ | ✓ |
Notes: She seems to have met with the Devil and Trolls (fairies). Difficult to tell what this one is about.
He came to her at her mother's house when she was young.
| Type | Text |
|---|---|
| Sex | |
| Devil's Mark | privie member |
Devil Appearances
| Type | Text |
|---|---|
| Male | The bowman of Hildiswick and Eschenes |
| Elphane/Fairyland | ✓ |
|---|---|
| Food/Drink | — |
| Verbal Formulae | — |
| Ritual Acts | ✓ |
| Familiars | — |
| Shape Changing | — |
|---|---|
| Dreams/Visions | — |
| Unorthodox Religious Practice | — |
| Sympathetic Magic | ✓ |
| Riding Dead | — |
Notes: The devil supposedly came to her on the calendar custom days listed. The Sea nut is possibly a bean or seed that washed ashore and the hook is called a 'Cleik' The nut brought good luck if carried and the ring of the cleik helped the profit of the milk if it was used for milking. She saw the trowis (trolls) rise out of the kirk yard at Hildiswick and Holiecorss (Holycross) Kirk especially at Yule. Trow is the Orkney and Shetland dialect term for fairies or little people.
Elf/Fairy Elements
- Group of fairies
Ritual Objects
- Sea Nut
- Hook
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: Moved a disease off of her husband to a visiting merchant from Craill.
- Halloween
- Holy Cross day
- Yule
| Source | Reference | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Sheriff Court Book | Court Book of Shetland, 1615-1629, ed. Donaldson, p. 38-43 | Also Dalyell, J G 'The Darker Supersitions of Scotland' (Edinburgh, 1834), pp. 6, 106, 532. The project did not check Larner's reference to this printed secondary source as part of the research. |
| Trial Ref | Date | Year | Verdict | Sentence | Execution |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| T/LA/1410 | 2/10/1616 | 1616 | Guilty | Execution | Yes |