Tailzeour,Anie
Case Reference: C/EGD/964
Case Summary
| Case Ref | C/EGD/964 |
|---|---|
| Accused | Anie Tailzeour |
| Case Start Date | |
| Case Date | 15/7/1624 |
| Age at Case | 34 |
| Common Name | Tailzeour,Anie |
|---|
Characterisation
| Type | Primary | Secondary |
|---|---|---|
| Maleficium | — | ✓ |
| Neighbourhood Dispute | ✓ | ✓ |
| Refused Charity | — | ✓ |
| Elphane/Fairyland | — |
|---|---|
| Food/Drink | — |
| Verbal Formulae | ✓ |
| Ritual Acts | ✓ |
| Familiars | — |
| Shape Changing | — |
|---|---|
| Dreams/Visions | — |
| Unorthodox Religious Practice | — |
| Sympathetic Magic | — |
| Riding Dead | — |
Notes: Someone took a lock of her hair. Description of a ritual where she took 3 cows tail hairs, 3 of her pubic hairs, and 3 hairs from her papys and said 'cum butter, cum' in order to move the profits from one person to another. When one of her accusers was going home late one evening he met a number of cats and claims to have seen her face on one of the cats. Appeasment with a bannock.
Shape Changing
| Type | Details |
|---|---|
| Animal | a cat with her face |
Ritual Objects
- Bannock
- Meal
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: Moved a lot of profits away from one family to another, specifically cows and cornes. Damaged a plow after quarrelling. Quarrel over peats. Took milk away from a cow.
Other Maleficia Notes: she stole some peats.
Property Damage Types
- Crops
- Animals
- Meal
- Midsummer
- Harvest
- Our Lady Day (Harvest)
- Candlemas
- Yule
- Superstition
- Sorcery
- Counter-magic
- Appeasement
| Source | Reference | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| RPC | 2nd S, v8 pp. 360-364 | See also Abbotsford Club, Miscellany/Vol. 1 [series 11], Edinburgh 1837. The project did not check this printed primary source. |
Trials (1)
| Trial Ref | Date | Year | Verdict | Sentence | Execution |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| T/LA/1104 | 15/7/1624 | 1624 | Guilty | Execution | Yes |