Malcolme,Issobell
Case Reference: C/EGD/2268
Case Summary
| Case Ref | C/EGD/2268 |
|---|---|
| Accused | Issobell Malcolme |
| Case Start Date | 12/3/1637 |
| Case Date | 21/11/1644 |
| Age at Case | 45 |
| Common Name | Malcolme,Issobell |
|---|
Characterisation
| Type | Primary | Secondary |
|---|---|---|
| Folk Healing | — | ✓ |
| Maleficium | — | ✓ |
| Not Enough Info | ✓ | ✓ |
| Elphane/Fairyland | — |
|---|---|
| Food/Drink | — |
| Verbal Formulae | ✓ |
| Ritual Acts | — |
| Familiars | — |
| Shape Changing | — |
|---|---|
| Dreams/Visions | — |
| Unorthodox Religious Practice | — |
| Sympathetic Magic | — |
| Riding Dead | — |
Notes: Initial charges in 1637 relate to charming and she confessed to helping women who were infertile but no details of her practices. Seems to have been no further action by presbytery in 1637. In the later charge she appears to have diagnosed that another woman's mother-in-law (goodame) had 'gotten wrong' from another neighbour's house, ie the cause of the harm. This seems to have backfired on her.
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 offered advice about infertility.
- Charming
| Name | Title | Involvement | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Robert Jameson | Mr | Investigator | moderator |
| Richard Maitland | Mr | Investigator |
| Source | Reference | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Strathbogie Presbytery records | CH2/342/2, f 19v, 25r, 43v, 45v, 49r, 54r, 56r, 57r, 61r. | Presbytery records have entries for 1637 and 1640 but she did not appear in 5/1640. Gap in minutes, then entry notes that she had been summmoned and searched for but not found. Later entries in 1644 record that she was summoned x3 but DNA, ordered to satisfy in sackcloth in own parish and eventually to be excommunicated. Last entry notes that she was dead. |
Trials (1)
| Trial Ref | Date | Year | Verdict | Sentence | Execution |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| T/JO/1267 | Excommunicated | No |