Dick,Alison

Type	Text
Body and soul
Paction

Ritual Objects

• Urine

Disease Notes: Alison appears to have argued and cursed her neighbours, who later took ill or had some misfortune. Claimed that her husband (Coke) had cursed boats and she tried to save them. Pissed outside meal cellar and spoiled meal.

Property Damage Types

• Boats
• Meal

• Exclusion from social events
• Refusal of alms

Name	Title	Involvement	Notes
David Brown	of Fynmouth	Commissioner
James Clerk	of Balbirnie	Commissioner
George Hamilton	of Blackburn	Commissioner
William Nairn	Mr	Minister	minister of Dysart was sent to observe the assize at Kirkcaldy but not named
James Simpson	Mr	Minister
William Spittal	Mr	Minister	minister of Dysart was sent to observe the assize at Kirkcaldy but not named

Source	Reference	Notes
Kirkcaldy Presbytery records	CH2/224/1, f 55v, r.	D Webster 'Tracts on Witchcraft' Edinburgh, 1820, p. 113-124. There is a reference to Alison Coke suspect of witchcraft in 1621 in Church & Parish, Kirkcaldy, p. 166. See also Simpkins 'County Folk Lore Vol VII, Fife, Clackmannan and Kinross'. The project did not check Larner's reference to these printed secondary sources as part of the research.
Kirkcaldy Old Kirk Session records	CH2/636/34.	Entry for the accounts/costs of execution, dated 17/12/1633. It lists the costs spent by the church bringing men to try the accused, for purchasing the commisison (£9 3s), for the coal and for making waistcoats for them ('for harden to be jups to them'). It also notes that the town's expenses were for the barrels, ropes, the executioner and his expenses.
Privy Council Register of Commissions	Adv. MA 31.3.10, fo. 64v.