Small,Helen

Case Reference: C/EGD/2364

Case Summary
Case RefC/EGD/2364
AccusedHelen Small
Case Start Date1/1/1649
Case Date18/1/1649
Common NameSmall,Helen
Characterisation
TypePrimarySecondary
Maleficium ✓ ✓
Implicated by Another — ✓

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: Accused of sending a stoup of barme to a neighbour who later died. Accused of causing illness in a woman after they quarrelled. The husband then reprimanded Small, their cow died but the wife got better. She denied the charges.

NameTitleInvolvementNotes
David Orme MrInvestigator

SourceReferenceNotes
Cupar Presbytery recordsCH2/82/1.See also J Campbell 'Balmerino and its Abbey' Edinburgh, 1936, p. 381. The project did not check this secondary reference as part of the research.
Trials (2)
Trial RefDateYearVerdictSentenceExecution
T/JO/1680 No
T/JO/2216 No