Bane,Margerat
Case Reference: C/JO/3033
| Case Ref | C/JO/3033 |
|---|---|
| Accused | Margerat Bane |
| Case Start Date | 25/3/1597 |
| Case Date | 24/4/1597 |
| Age at Case | 55 |
| Common Name | Bane,Margerat |
|---|
| Type | Primary | Secondary |
|---|---|---|
| Demonic | — | ✓ |
| Folk Healing | — | ✓ |
| Maleficium | — | ✓ |
| Midwifery | — | ✓ |
| Implicated by Another | ✓ | ✓ |
| White Magic | — | ✓ |
Notes: Bane's association with Spaldarge seems to have condemned her although Bane herself seems to have named quite a few others.
Confessed that her sister Spaldarge had taught her all her skill and witchcraft, and inducted her to the devil's service.
| Type | Text |
|---|---|
| Paction | |
| Servant |
Devil Appearances
| Type | Text |
|---|---|
| Animal Devil | grey stag |
| Animal Devil | bird |
| Animal Devil | horse |
| Elphane/Fairyland | — |
|---|---|
| Food/Drink | — |
| Verbal Formulae | — |
| Ritual Acts | ✓ |
| Familiars | — |
| Shape Changing | — |
|---|---|
| Dreams/Visions | ✓ |
| Unorthodox Religious Practice | — |
| Sympathetic Magic | ✓ |
| Riding Dead | — |
Notes: With her sister Spaldarge, she seems to have had a vision of a headless man, which they claimed predicted the death of a man. Seen paddling in loch on Nuris Day, throwing water and erd and stane (ritual of land ownership) over her shoulders. Took fire peat from one man's house to her own house and later daughter/son (?) of the man died. Predicted the birth of a child. Did not exchange any greeting with a man who later died. Touched boy on both cheeks, later he died.
Ritual Objects
- Water
- Stones
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: Claimed with Issobell Richie she performed acts of malefice. Consulted as midwife to help labour pains, which were transferred to other people. Helped with calf not suckling, but later wife took ill.Cursed man after he said she would burn. He drowned.
Other Maleficia Notes: Accused of cursing a man who had argued and hit her son, Duncan Gardyne.
White Magic
- Prophesy
- Halloween
- Nuris Day
- Murder
| Name | Title | Involvement | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Thomas Leslie | Mr | Sheriff-depute | |
| Alexander Rutherford | Prosecutor | ||
| James Stewart | Chancellor |
| Source | Reference | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Spalding Club Miscellany | Vol I, p 141-2. | |
| Spalding Club Miscellany | Vol I, p 156-62. | |
| Spalding Club Miscellany | Vol V, p 67. | Burgh accounts for her execution. |