Sampsoune,Agnes

Notes: One of the meetings was like a party at sea with good wine and ale. She travelled over the water in a boat like a chimney and the Devil went before them in a ruk of hay. They baptised a cat. Witches meeting with nine people. She described 11 separate witches meetings. North Berwick meeting was a classic description of a black mass. First there was dancing. The women payed homage, then the men. The men walked withershins 9 times, the women 6 tymes. Fean was the right hand man, Johnne Gray-meil guarded the door. There were prayers, black candles and a whole service. There were supposedly 6 men to 94 women at the meeting. She also denied all the North Berwick stuff in a mega-confession. Then later in the confession she talked about the North Berwick stuff (was she tortured?)

Meeting Places

Devil came to her after her husband died, she was moved by poverty and the chance for revenge. At the time she thought the Devil's mark was a hurt she received from one of her children who was in bed with her. In order to heal she called the Devil by the name of 'Elva' and he came as a dog. The Devil carried a staff. She confessed to these things in front of King James VI. She denied that the spirits she met were the Devil.

Devil Appearances

Notes: Predicted someone's death. She said the Devil was responsible for storms around Michaelmas and that they would continue. Learned her healing from her father. Gripping to cure. She did lots of rituals with cats, passing them around and combining them with joints (dead people's). They cast live cats into the sea, the cats swam out again. Did a version of the Lord's Prayer, Ave Marias. She was paid to heal very high status people (Lords, lairds, and their wives) from a large territory. She prescribed an egg dipped in vinager, and one dipped in white wine, rubbed a patient with Aqua vitea. Healed someone on Halloween. She blessed a ring.

Elf/Fairy Elements

• Elfshot
• Meeting at 12:00

Ritual Objects

• Elfshot
• Shirt
• Cat
• Corpse
• Wax/clay images
• Corpse powder
• Salt
• Thread
• Glass
• Egg
• Vinegar
• Wine
• Aqua Vitae

Religious Motifs

• Prayer
• Nine
• Six

Disease Notes: She was accused of failing to heal many times. Her range in healing was large, North Berwick, Direlton, Preston, Dalkeith. She was hired by rich and poor people for healing. She was paid for her services. She helped ease the pain of childbirth.

Other Maleficia Notes: Part of the witches' crew that wanted to destroy King James VI and Queen Ann of Denmark. The Devil bad them party on a ship, but the mariners could not see them, the Devil raised wind and rocked the boat. She confessed that she quarreled with J. Straton

Property Damage Types

• Boats

Weather Modification Types

• Wind

White Magic

• Finding lost goods
• Love magic
• Prophesy

• Halloween
• Easter
• Michaelmas