Clark,Janet
Case Reference: C/EGD/53
Case Summary
| Case Ref | C/EGD/53 |
|---|---|
| Accused | Janet Clark |
| Case Start Date | 12/7/1590 |
| Case Date | 17/8/1590 |
| Common Name | Clark,Janet |
|---|
Characterisation
| Type | Primary | Secondary |
|---|---|---|
| Folk Healing | — | ✓ |
| Maleficium | — | ✓ |
| Implicated by Another | — | ✓ |
| Not Enough Info | ✓ | ✓ |
| Elphane/Fairyland | — |
|---|---|
| Food/Drink | — |
| Verbal Formulae | — |
| Ritual Acts | ✓ |
| Familiars | — |
| Shape Changing | — |
|---|---|
| Dreams/Visions | — |
| Unorthodox Religious Practice | — |
| Sympathetic Magic | — |
| Riding Dead | — |
Notes: South-running well. She supposedly had a kist full of men's secret members made of clay.
Ritual Objects
- Water
- Wax/clay images
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: Made an enchantment for a woman to put in her master's meat.
| Source | Reference | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Pitcairn | v I, part ii, page 206 | almost same text as JC2/2 |
| Witchcraft Papers | JC40/2-3 | |
| Books of Adjournal | JC2/2 fos. 181v-182r | |
| Process Notes | JC26/2 | in index to JC26/1-7 in the NAS. |
| Process Notes | JC26/2 witchcraft bundle, item 29 | |
| Process Notes | JC26/2 witchcraft bundle, item 28 | |
| Process Notes | JC26/2 witchcraft bundle, item 26 | summonds |
| High Court Minute Books | JC6/3 | no pagination - 17/8/1590 |
Trials (2)
Case Notes
She was mentioned in a process note about Leslie and Achinleck on 12/7/1590. The same people were involved in the prosecutions.