Clark,Agnes
Case Reference: C/EGD/794
Case Summary
| Case Ref | C/EGD/794 |
|---|---|
| Accused | Agnes Clark |
| Case Start Date | 4/4/1659 |
| Case Date | 5/4/1659 |
| Age at Case | 37 |
| Common Name | Clark,Agnes |
|---|
Characterisation
| Type | Primary | Secondary |
|---|---|---|
| Unorthodox Religious Practice | — | ✓ |
| Maleficium | — | ✓ |
| Implicated by Another | — | ✓ |
| Neighbourhood Dispute | ✓ | ✓ |
Notes: The circuit record is just people ratifying their witness depositions. Very little information about what the charges actually were. The dittay roll has more detail, enough to assign a primary of Neighbourhood dispute. Plenty of good detail.
| Elphane/Fairyland | — |
|---|---|
| Food/Drink | — |
| Verbal Formulae | — |
| Ritual Acts | — |
| Familiars | — |
| Shape Changing | — |
|---|---|
| Dreams/Visions | — |
| Unorthodox Religious Practice | ✓ |
| Sympathetic Magic | — |
| Riding Dead | — |
Notes: Appeasement offered to her of milk and bread. This means that people were trying to make up with her so that she would no longer feel malice towards them and would desist in magically harming them.
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: Cursing for God's malediction on her knees. Quarrels over kale, stolen faggot, social insults, and purchases of wool and flesh.
- Appeasement
- Prayer
| Source | Reference | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Circuit Court Books | JC10/1 fo. 263v-264r, 264v, 269r | |
| 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. | ||
| Process Notes | JC26/26 Dumfries dittays 1659 (Biggest dittay roll) | |
| Process Notes | JC26/26 Dumfries Bundle | witness depositions. |
Trials (1)
| Trial Ref | Date | Year | Verdict | Sentence | Execution |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| T/LA/1148 | 4/4/1659 | 1659 | Guilty | Execution | Yes |