Peebles,Marion

Accused of having met the devil in various forms but especially as two crows. ?familiars as they went with her one on either side.

Type	Text
Body and soul
Servant

Devil Appearances

Type	Text
Animal Devil	crows

Notes: Requested to remove illness after cursing woman. Gave her husband some silver to hold his peace, then sent the woman some cheese. Touched a man's leg three times, then touched the ground. Sent a bannock to a man to cure him. Accused of appearing under a fishing boat as a porpoise and causing it to overturn and sink. Four men drowned and she was requested to lay her hands on the dead bodies, which then bled proving that she had caused their death.

Shape Changing

Type	Details
Animal	porpoise (pellack whale)

Ritual Objects

• Bannock

Religious Motifs

• Three

Disease Notes: Sent a sick woman cheese, which she refused to eat. The woman then got better but 2 cows took ill. Transferred illness between people and to animals. Woman got better after biting Peebles fingers until they bled.

Other Maleficia Notes: Destroyed a crop of bere. Caused a cow to give blood instead of milk. Annoyed that a neighbour had bulled one of her cows against her will. When the cow calved the milk was spoiled. She was refused the loan of a horse to help carry peats - horse died.

Property Damage Types

• Crops
• Dairy
• Boats

• Refusal of alms
• Failed business interaction

• Michaelmas

• Appeasement

Name	Title	Involvement	Notes
W. Robert Murray		Investigator
Nicoll White	Mr	Investigator

Source	Reference	Notes
County Folklore	Vol III, Orkney and Shetland, pp. 88-99.	County Folklore Vol III collected and edited by Black and Thomas is a copy of S Hibbert 'Description of the Shetland Islands' Edinburgh, 1822, pp. 593-602.