Clerk,Margaret
Case Reference: C/EGD/790
Case Summary
| Case Ref | C/EGD/790 |
|---|---|
| Accused | Margaret Clerk |
| Case Start Date | 2/4/1659 |
| Case Date | 5/4/1659 |
| Common Name | Clerk,Margaret |
|---|
Characterisation
| Type | Primary | Secondary |
|---|---|---|
| Unorthodox Religious Practice | — | ✓ |
| Folk Healing | — | ✓ |
| Maleficium | — | ✓ |
| Implicated by Another | — | ✓ |
| Neighbourhood Dispute | ✓ | ✓ |
| White Magic | — | ✓ |
Notes: The record in the circuit court documents is just comments from witnesses about their depositions and the dittay. Not very clear. Witness depositions have both healing and dispute elements. I decided on dispute because there seems to be more description of malefice rather than curing.
| Elphane/Fairyland | — |
|---|---|
| Food/Drink | — |
| Verbal Formulae | ✓ |
| Ritual Acts | — |
| Familiars | — |
| Shape Changing | — |
|---|---|
| Dreams/Visions | — |
| Unorthodox Religious Practice | ✓ |
| Sympathetic Magic | — |
| Riding Dead | — |
Notes: She put a bannock in the wall to protect the cows. Cured with a prayer and I think a fish?
Ritual Objects
- Bannock
Religious Motifs
- 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 | — |
Disease Notes: argument re: wages for a wright, curses, her beasts ate a man's seed stock so he kept her from the brewing water well (it filled with toads), injured the bailie after he poined her goods.
White Magic
- Protective
- Appeasement
| Source | Reference | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Circuit Court Books | JC10/1 f. 261v-262r, 262v | |
| McDowall, W 'History of the burgh of Dumfries' (Edinburgh, 1867), p. 376. The project did not check Larner's reference to this printed secondary source as part of the research. | ||
| Circuit Court Papers | JC10/15/2 | |
| Process Notes | JC26/26 Dumfries dittays 1659 (Biggest dittay roll) | |
| Process Notes | JC26/26 Dumfried Bundle |
Trials (1)
| Trial Ref | Date | Year | Verdict | Sentence | Execution |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| T/LA/1145 | 2/4/1659 | 1659 | Guilty | Execution | Yes |
Case Notes
We think this is the same person as C/EGD/2334.