Bennet,Issobell
Case Reference: C/EGD/316
| Case Ref | C/EGD/316 |
|---|---|
| Accused | Issobell Bennet |
| Case Start Date | 16/3/1658 |
| Case Date | 22/3/1659 |
| Common Name | Bennet,Issobell |
|---|
| Type | Primary | Secondary |
|---|---|---|
| Unorthodox Religious Practice | — | ✓ |
| Folk Healing | ✓ | ✓ |
Notes: It is simply a list of people and whether or not they ratified their witness statements. Impossible to tell what the dittay said. We have a document called the Manner of the Charmes of the Stirling Witches, lots of descriptions!
| Elphane/Fairyland | — |
|---|---|
| Food/Drink | — |
| Verbal Formulae | ✓ |
| Ritual Acts | ✓ |
| Familiars | — |
| Shape Changing | — |
|---|---|
| Dreams/Visions | — |
| Unorthodox Religious Practice | ✓ |
| Sympathetic Magic | — |
| Riding Dead | — |
Notes: To cure blasted people, washed them with water from the hollow ground after an ebb in the sea with a quantity of meal and straw placed in four corners of the bed, and she used a horseshoe, a hook and a piece of raw flesh. She said father, son and holy ghost three times. To cure maw turned she walked people around an oak pole three times, said some words to God and St. Brisbane. For curing someone that is wronged by an other at variance with them, go them and crave your health back (basically curing the quarrel, words, misfortune illnesses). For keeping folks from harm, bury a quick modiewort in a box under the outside of a threshold.
Ritual Objects
- Water
- Meal
- Straw
- Horseshoe
- Hook
- Flesh
Religious Motifs
- Three
- Trinity
- Saints
- Prayer
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 | — |
- Sorcery
- Charming
- Protective magic
- Appeasement
| Source | Reference | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Circuit Court Books | JC10/1 fo. 240r, 241r | |
| Process Notes | JC26/26 bundle 3 'stirling witches', item 17 | arraignment list |
| Process Notes | JC26/26 bundle 3 'stirling witches', item 11 | charmes of the stirling witches |
| Process Notes | JC26/26 bundle 3 'stirling witches', item 14, 22 | witness list |
| Process Notes | JC26/26 Stiriling Court Roll |
| Trial Ref | Date | Year | Verdict | Sentence | Execution |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| T/LA/1131 | 22/3/1659 | 1659 | Guilty | No |