Smart,Tibbie

Case Reference: C/EGD/33

Case Summary
Case RefC/EGD/33
AccusedTibbie Smart
Case Start Date
Case Date1586
Common NameSmart,Tibbie
Characterization
TypePrimarySecondary
Folk Healing
Maleficium
Not Enough Info

Notes: She was consulted by a group of people to get revenge.

Elphane/Fairyland
Food/Drink
Verbal Formulae
Ritual Acts
Familiars
Shape Changing
Dreams/Visions
Unorthodox Religious Practice
Sympathetic Magic
Riding Dead

Notes: Her purse was found by a man in town, and it contained pickles of quheit beir (wheat bere), great salt pieces, pieces of coal, thread, joint bones, and other things of various colours. She used the shear and riddle (sieve) to get gear for people.

Shape Changing
TypeDetails
AnimalBrok, [badger]
Ritual Objects
  • Sieve
  • Thread
  • Shears

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: Threatened a man who found and opened her purse, he died. She diagnosed his lamb problem Accused of killing 10 people.

  • Sorcery

SourceReferenceNotes
Process NotesJC26/1/13See also PROC. S.R.O. LIST The project was unable to locate this source/reference at the NAS so were unable to check it. We doubt that it even exists.
Process NotesJC26/2
Trials (1)
Trial RefDateYearVerdictSentenceExecution
T/LA/1640 GuiltyBanishment No
Case Notes
She was tried and banished, and then a new indictment was drawn up later that incorporated that guilty verdict as item 8.