Callen,Jennat
Case Reference: C/EGD/796
| Case Ref | C/EGD/796 |
|---|---|
| Accused | Jennat Callen |
| Case Start Date | 19/5/1658 |
| Case Date | 5/4/1659 |
| Common Name | Callen,Jennat |
|---|
| Type | Primary | Secondary |
|---|---|---|
| Maleficium | — | ✓ |
| Neighbourhood Dispute | ✓ | ✓ |
Notes: Seems to be all about curses followed by harm, but difficult to tell from the circuit court records, because the record is just witness ratifications of their depositions. The witness deposition is mostly people ratifying their testimony - not a lot of detail. Dittay has lots of details about quarrels, curses, and illness.
| Elphane/Fairyland | — |
|---|---|
| Food/Drink | — |
| Verbal Formulae | — |
| Ritual Acts | — |
| Familiars | — |
| Shape Changing | — |
|---|---|
| Dreams/Visions | — |
| Unorthodox Religious Practice | — |
| Sympathetic Magic | — |
| Riding Dead | — |
Notes: Poured cows milk into Jennat's yard to heal a cow. Janet Miller diagnosed her as the cause of someone's illness told her to get 3 stoppings of Straw from Jennat's roof and burn them. So she was the subject of counter-magic, that means that her neighbours thought she was using harmful magic on people.
Ritual Objects
- Straw
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: Also caused someone to fall into a trance. Curse after getting kicked out of her house. Cow's milk. Threats re: bleaching linen, cow in the corn (courch removal). Injured woman for marrying the man Jennat wanted.
Property Damage Types
- Dairy
- Counter-magic
| Source | Reference | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Circuit Court Books | JC10/1 fo. 266r-266v, 267r, 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. | ||
| Circuit Court Papers | JC10/15/1 | |
| Process Notes | JC26/26 Dumfries dittays 1659 (Biggest dittay roll) | |
| Process Notes | JC26/26 Dumfries bundle |