Wharrie,Janet
Case Reference: C/JO/3025
| Case Ref | C/JO/3025 |
|---|---|
| Accused | Janet Wharrie |
| Case Start Date | 21/9/1697 |
| Case Date | 7/11/1699 |
| Common Name | Wharrie,Janet |
|---|
| Type | Primary | Secondary |
|---|---|---|
| Maleficium | ✓ | ✓ |
| Neighbourhood Dispute | — | ✓ |
Notes: Wharrie took the case herself to presbytery. She tied to prove that the witnesses had malice against her. Witnesses claimed that she had cursed them after they had refused to help her with ploughing or prevented her from crossing their land. It seems that the presbytery were not convinced by Wharrie's version but could not really do much with her.
| Elphane/Fairyland | — |
|---|---|
| Food/Drink | — |
| Verbal Formulae | ✓ |
| Ritual Acts | — |
| Familiars | — |
| Shape Changing | — |
|---|---|
| Dreams/Visions | — |
| Unorthodox Religious Practice | — |
| Sympathetic Magic | — |
| Riding Dead | — |
Notes: It was cliamed that she cursed and swore at her victims.
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: Witnesses claimed she cursed and uttered an 'ill prayer' that a neighbour's wife 'would have many a bloody day'. Also cows would vomit their grass or rowt/rout (bellow) to death. Also wished a man to take the glengore (syphilis).
Other Maleficia Notes: Wharrie asked neighbours to help with ploughing. When they refused they claimed she cursed their beasts and ploughs so that they could not use them to plough their own rigs.
Property Damage Types
- Animals
- Plough
- Grudge
| Name | Title | Involvement | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Robert Paton | Mr | Investigator | |
| John Somerville | Mr | Investigator | |
| Alexander Veitch | Mr | Investigator |
| Source | Reference | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Dumfries Presbytery records | CH2/1284/4, pp. 99, 101, 102,108, 178. |
| Trial Ref | Date | Year | Verdict | Sentence | Execution |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| T/JO/1290 | No |