Couper,Marable
Case Reference: C/EGD/963
| Case Ref | C/EGD/963 |
|---|---|
| Accused | Marable Couper |
| Case Start Date | |
| Case Date | 7/7/1624 |
| Common Name | Couper,Marable |
|---|
| Type | Primary | Secondary |
|---|---|---|
| Maleficium | — | ✓ |
| Neighbourhood Dispute | ✓ | ✓ |
| Elphane/Fairyland | — |
|---|---|
| Food/Drink | — |
| Verbal Formulae | — |
| Ritual Acts | ✓ |
| Familiars | — |
| Shape Changing | — |
|---|---|
| Dreams/Visions | — |
| Unorthodox Religious Practice | — |
| Sympathetic Magic | ✓ |
| Riding Dead | — |
Notes: She had 'ane great bag lyk ane fwynes bledder' [A great bag like a faune's bladder] on her lap which she claimed was her guts which a woman had trampled out with her knees. [Is this some reference to the shamanistic removal of organs?] She seems to imply that she was being bewitched and was trying to find the witch who was plagueing her husband and her household. Some tried to appease the person she believed to be the culprit with ale after she asked for alms and said the person would heal.
Ritual Objects
- Ale
- Bannock
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: Accused of taking the profit off of someone's cow. Cursing and quarrelling about cattle. Dispute over a borrowed 'Killtreis' when grinding cornes. The usual quarrel, curse, harm.
Other Maleficia Notes: accused of flyting. And made sarcastic comments about the Devil. People refered to her 'as ane banished witche'
Property Damage Types
- Crops
- Ale
- Animals
- Meal
- Buildings
- Midsummer
- Harvest
- Saint Magnus Day
- Beltane
- Candlemas
- Fastings eve
- Halloween
- Superstition
- Sorcery
- Counter-magic
- Protective magic
- Appeasement
| Source | Reference | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| RPC | 2nd S, v8 pp. 355-360 | See also Abbotsford Club, Miscellany/Vol. 1 [series 11], Edinburgh 1837. The project did not check this printed primary source. |
| Trial Ref | Date | Year | Verdict | Sentence | Execution |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| T/LA/1103 | 7/7/1624 | 1624 | Guilty | Execution | Yes |